How much money would actually be saved by means testing universal benefits for pensioners?
In this region of hostilities and paradoxes, however, it would be too much to expect universal benefit.
Miliband says he does not support reopening the issue of universal benefits.
Means testing child benefit and some other universal benefits is too difficult so millionaires will continue to receive them.
In the current climate, universal benefits for higher earners are difficult to justify.
Support, or not, for universal benefits aside - doesn't this reek of double standards?
The fact that the basic state pension is not a universal benefit, but is based on the level of payment,.
Why would you bother to tax a universal benefit?
I'm afraid that universal benefits will eventually become a thing of the past.
Isn't that universal benefit known as tax relief on pension contributions a public sector contribution?