Sentences with phrase «testing pensioner benefits»

Osborne is right to point out that means - testing pensioner benefits would not raise the sums that many suggest.

Means - tested pensioner benefits will be swept away to fund this new «citizen's pension» and the reform will, it is said, be funded by the later retirement age and abolishing the complex bureaucracy that administers the humiliating process of form - filling that stands between pensioners and top - up benefits.

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He also warned that they would leave nearly half of the pensioner population in receipt of means - tested benefits.

Ed Miliband, you'll remember, said last week that the current set - up, by which wealthy pensioners receive benefits such as Winter Fuel Allowance and free TV licences, «needs to be looked at» — before his party's spokespeople swarmed out to reassure folk that no decisions had yet been made, that their leader didn't like the idea of means - testing, etc, etc..

The NHS budget will, as expected, rise above the rate of inflation from # 104bn this year to # 114bn by the end of the four - year spending period, and universal benefits for pensioners including free eye tests, prescription charges, bus passes, TV licences for the over-75s and winter fuel payments will be maintained.