In Australia, most benefits are subject to a means test.
He believes a means test would therefore be a betrayal.
The report's proposals to reform the current means test are also a good start.
But at least it is a benefit as of right and without means test.
In May 1975 the means test was abolished for the age group 70-74 years.
Applications for a disabled person under the age of 20 will not be subject to a means test.
The first change was in the means test itself.
"With a generous means test, the program will be able to continue in the future."
The benefits concerned must not be universal ones, but require something in the way of a means test.
"It was not in any way to be based on a means test."