http://blogs.independent.co.uk| Blogs from the Independent newspaper - news, views and features from the world's most free-thinking newspaper| Fri, 24 May 2013 16:57:14 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2| en hourly 1 http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/06/13/why-rich-pensioners-benefits-should-be-scrapped/ http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/06/13/why-rich-pensioners-benefits-should-be-scrapped/#comments Wed, 13 Jun 2012 10:33:32 +0000 Ian Mulheirn http://blogs.independent.co.uk/?p=25223 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.]]> http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/06/13/why-rich-pensioners-benefits-should-be-scrapped/feed/ 55