We are spending about $350 billion a year on 79 means-tested Federal welfare programs.

You can see this happening right now to Medicaid, the nation's most important means-tested program.

Your point would have validity were it the case that means-tested benefits worked.

More than 80% of children are in families also eligible for means-tested child tax credit.

A means-tested old age pension for those 65 years and older was introduced in 1898.

There is means-tested support, provided by local authorities, but charges are made.

The rule would apply to virtually all means-tested programs, Federal, state or local.

If a means-tested system was implemented much earlier on, this nonsense might not have happened.

He may also recommend that the means-tested threshold be raised.

Do the figures include the other 153,000+ people on various means-tested benefits including income support?

The budget proposed to change this and introduced a means-tested system of benefits.

These awards are means-tested, and can be worth the entire school fee.

Such "means-tested" entitlements account for only about 8 percent of the Federal budget.

There is a real possibility that this payment could be limited in future or even means-tested.

There have been repeated calls for the benefit to be means-tested to focus resources on those in most need.

Single people with no assets may be able to qualify for a means-tested safety net.

Further, Australia's means-tested tax and spending programs are extraordinarily complex.

It is not means-tested and is paid to women in all circumstances.

Concern was expressed at what the effect would be when attaching a means-tested service to a free one.

But the net effect has been to leave exactly the same number dependent upon means-tested assistance.

Legal aid is means-tested, and in practice only available to less than one-quarter of the population.

I for one believe the means-tested benefits approach has created a welfare benefit trap.

Winter fuel allowance should be means-tested, so that people in genuine need get real help.

What you get from means-tested benefits depends on what your income is.

In other words, there would be an overall decline of nearly half a million people (that is, 380,000+ 100,000) drawing means-tested support.