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Why rich pensioners’ benefits SHOULD be scrapped
The usually impeccable reasoning of Jonathan Portes of the NIESR doesn’t wash here. It makes no more sense to say that means-testing Winter Fuel Payments must imply means-testing of the Basic State Pension, than it does to argue that the universal Basic State Pension implies that the Pension Credit top up benefit must be made universal, at impossible expense.
By Ian Mulheirn | Eagle Eye, Econoblog, Opinion | Wednesday, 13 June 2012 at 11:33 am
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