Targeting financial support inevitably brings more complexity, and is accompanied by stigma, which can lead to reluctance to claim.
"The 2015 budget changes to the pension assets test were fair and reasonable, better targeting financial support to people at risk of poverty.
"We are targeting financial support at students who need it most to get through their studies through a new £180m a year bursary fund, with further transitional support available for those students who were already drawing the Education Maintenance Allowance," he said.
The government must also recognise that a one-size-fits-all approach just doesn't work in the energy sector and that we need targeted financial support mechanisms for renewables.
The OECD called for efforts to be made to boost skills, to improve work incentives for lone parents and second earners under the Universal Credit welfare reform, improve the Work Capability Assessment and support for return to work for those who are fit, and take steps to tackle fuel and water poverty through better targeted financial support.
Health centers receive a package of instrumental support that includes targeted financial support, systems improvements, enhanced training and supervision for clinical staff, and continuous quality improvement and data utilization support.
Member States should support an adapted work environment for people with disabilities and older workers, including targeted financial support actions and services that enable them to participate in the labour market and in society as a whole.
Governments can advance more ambitious national energy plans and targets, provide financial support, and moderate perverse tariffs.
Agreement can be reached if governments now focus on the key issue: the required overall reduction in emissions, with rich countries taking the lead through strong, binding targets and financial support for developing countries.
The improvement of patient rights and patient protection was targeted through financial support of consumer associations and mandating the medical services of the statutory health insurers to evaluate the causes of medical accidents.
