This will cost the taxpayer billions in means tested benefits, but it's still used to pit public against private sector worker.

Low wages also increase government spending on means tested benefits for those in work.

How much money would actually be saved by means testing universal benefits for pensioners?

There are many means tested benefits for the old - council tax benefit, attendance allowance, social care, housing benefit.

That is only an argument for means testing and taxing benefits.

They may be able to work part time, and if so what they earn will be subtracted from means tested benefits such as housing benefit.

Thirty different means tested benefits are currently being managed by nine departments and 152 local authorities in England.

The Board kept a system of means tested benefits and did widen the number of people who could claim relief.

But there are still today a large number of means tested benefits.

He saw the economy thrashed and more than half the population on means tested benefits.