Mr. Murdoch, calling the newspaper business model "malfunctioning," said the company planned to test payment options on some of the company's "stronger" newspapers.
The company has already been testing payments in its hometown of Pittsburgh, and early results are promising, the CEO claims.
To demonstrate how this actually works, Dwolla sent me a test payment of $1.
Make a small test payment of £1, and check it has arrived, before sending a large sum, particularly if it is someone you haven't paid before, such as a holiday firm, retailer and so on.
The EMA was a weekly means-tested payment of up to £30 for students aged 16-19, at schools or in further education colleges, in return for their attending lessons.
This isn't particularly surprising – there have recently been reports of Facebook planning to begin testing payments some time soon, after months of delays.
Around 3.2m people, including children, are in receipt of the non-means tested DLA payments of up to £70 a week (depending on severity of condition).
Means-testing the payment of the allowance, and the free television licences to which all pensioners are currently entitled, would save £1.4 billion, reckons the Institute for Fiscal Studies.
Altogether, the full-year additional cost of the new credits Labour's term for this welfare spending will be £4.6 billion ($7.2 billion), close to next year's increase in the education budget.Not only are these credits costly, they also mark a major extension of means-testing, the payment of benefits according to income rather than on a universal or contribution-linked basis.
GPs in the practice were then contacted by letter to inform them of the allocation relevant to their practice and reminded of testing payment or non-payment.
