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What (who) is means test - definition

ELIGIBILITY CRITERIA BASED ON FINANCIAL STATUS
Means-testing; Means testing; Means tested; Means-test; Means-tested; Means Test; Income based; Needs based; Needs-based; Income-based; Means-tested benefit; Criticism of means-testing

means-tested         
A grant or benefit that is means-tested varies in amount depending on a means test.
...means-tested benefits.
ADJ
means test         
(means tests)
A means test is a test in which your income is calculated in order to decide whether you qualify for a grant or benefit from the state.
N-COUNT: usu sing
Means test         
A means test is a determination of whether an individual or family is eligible for government assistance or welfare, based upon whether the individual or family possesses the means to do without that help.

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Means test

A means test is a determination of whether an individual or family is eligible for government assistance or welfare, based upon whether the individual or family possesses the means to do without that help.

Examples of use of means test
1. Many families considered the means test humiliating.
2. Allowing states to switch to a more straightforward means test would ease that problem, she said.
3. Nursing home residents who are judged to have mainly ‘social‘ care needs undergo a means test.
4. But money–saving changes by John Major‘s government in 1''3 introduced a means–test system.
5. Many pensioners are too proud to submit to the means test.