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

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

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

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

Means-tested benefits, by their very nature, appear to favour the low paid.

This replaced the system of public assistance, a locally administered means-tested benefit.

What to do if you are on means-tested benefits

One million people in work claim means-tested benefits.

If you are on means-tested benefits, the way you pay back tax may affect your entitlement.

Number Two, I have no objection to means-tested benefits.

Essentially, means-tested benefits is a great way to create a bureaucracy - but a poor way to get money to those who need it.

How will buying shares affect my means-tested benefits?

If this happens, you may still be able to claim Pension Credit, which is a means-tested benefit.

Forty thousand from family credit and two hundred thousand people will be means-tested benefit.

Not for public sector pensions, but for means-tested benefits.

Personally I think it is daft and wrong to tax people and then give them means-tested benefits back.

In reality, a means test for bus passes etc would be linked to means-tested benefits like pension credit.

This is a training manual for a two-day course on means-tested benefits including the Social Fund.

According to the study, the means-tested benefit is reaching its targets more often and more effectively than many had feared.

This would ensure that most pensioners would not need to rely on means-tested benefits.

Paradoxically, they also encourage a greater reliance on means-tested benefits, which are divorced from employment records.

To introduce means-testing is expensive because of the higher costs associated with administering means-tested benefits.

BLs are intended to help those on means-tested benefits to spread the cost of intermittent expenses over a longer period.

Pension Credit and other means-tested benefits will also continue and will still be available for those who need to claim them.

With the replacement of national assistance by supplementary benefit in 1966, a major change took place in relation to the means-tested benefits.