Quotes About Means-tested

Across Europe, not just in the U.K., the old Beveridge and Bismarckian variants of the welfare state have been dismantled. In their place has been erected a mish-mash of means-tested, behaviour-tested social assistance, with a growing tendency to force young unemployed into workfare schemes, which are helping to depress real wages.

Means-tested benefits have one incredible feature in that they impose huge poverty traps.

I believe that social security should be a universal retirement guarantee and not means tested.