Yet any proposal to institute a means test is either ignored or howled down.
He said also that during Gordon's Brown time at the Treasury, older Scots had to endure the indignity of a means test to get a decent pension.
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Soon after he won power, Mr Blair decided to abolish the maintenance grants of university students throughout the United Kingdom, and to require many students (subject to a means test) to contribute to the cost of their tuition fees.
There was not a lot of money to go around so I tried to convince the student leaders the loan should be available only to those who really needed it and that we should have a means test to determine those who would qualify for the loan.
The law applied a "means test" to determine whether a person qualifies for Chapter 7 bankruptcy, which erases debts, or Chapter 13, which establishes a payment system.
But a means-test is no substitute for sorting out overlapping benefits and confining payments to people who are genuinely disabled.
The initiative is widely seen as a means to test the waters before mandatory standards having the force of law would be put forward.
In Russia 'to get a banana' means 'to fail a test somewhere'.
Ensuring that bots are blocked means presenting a test that the software cannot complete.
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Failure of a test usually means an instant short spell in jail, and it is hoped that such a dramatic sentence will shock people out of re-offending - thereby reducing long-term prison numbers and cutting off alcohol-related crime at the source.
If meeting the October deadline means a poorly prepared GMAT test and hurried essays that lack definition and impact, wait for the next round.
This is one of many bad incentives created by high-stakes testing, and by placing too much faith in the test as a means to improve outcomes.
So any rationing of benefits by income would need to be based on something that looked a lot more like the traditional means test.
Teaching to a test not only narrows the curriculum, it means that teachers prepare students specifically for the test.
For these descendants of the old Ban the Bomb and Nuclear Freeze movements, a test ban is not an end but a means.
Students are compared with a national sample, which means about 11% of kindergarten test-takers in the city received scores in the 99th percentile this year.
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On paper at least, it appeared they would provide a stern test to City but the manner of this win means Mark Hughes' men will approach the second leg on 19 March in confident mood.
That means they're likely to think twice before getting a test or procedure done.
Perhaps because they secured admittance to Stuyvesant based on a test, Stuyvesant students think that passing tests, by whatever means necessary, is their ticket to lifelong glory.
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Hooker Smit's place in the team looks to be assured after new national coach Peter de Villiers named him as captain but that means at least one of the others will not find a place in the Test team.
It means the 4-year-olds taking the test must be able to distinguish a striped hexagon from a striped octagon from another striped octagon whose stripes are in the opposite direction.
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To help neo-literate police officers test their reading ability with informative and relevant material, UNESCO publishes a monthly newspaper, Khedmat (which means "service" in the Pashto and Dari languages).
It proposes using new CCEA tests as a means of selection, but is against the minister's proposal of reducing the proportion of pupils who sit the test annually until it is phased out completely in three years.
Wood's inclusion means that over a third of England's starting line-up will get their first experience of playing a Test in Cardiff, with Ben Foden, Chris Ashton, Shontayne Hape, Ben Youngs and Dan Cole also new to the Millennium Stadium Test experience.
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