means-tested

means-testing | Business English

means-testing
noun[ U ]
 GOVERNMENT, FINANCEuk /ˈmiːnzˌtestɪŋ/us
the measuring of people's income in order to decide who gets money from the government for medical care, education, legal services, etc. or how much people get:
The government may introduce means-testing for eligibility for a state pension.
abolish/end/abandon means-testingEnding means-testing would make the system easier to administer.

Examples of means testing

means testing
All of this could be done electronically without the need for intrusive inquiries or overt meanstesting.
This programme provided needy disabled people with extremely low social assistance benefits on the basis of stringent meanstesting.
Private provision played an unusually large role, state spending was relatively low and meanstesting was important.
Secondly, meanstesting necessarily involves withdrawing benefits from those who have built up private pension rights.
The ' theoretical orientation ' of the book apparently meanstesting of hypotheses that have been advanced in previous research.
The approach has been to concentrate resources on the poor by means of greater selectivity and meanstesting.
The government ended universal programmes and imposed meanstesting in family allowances and old age security, with the same effect.
However, meanstesting remains the condition for receiving income support and people owning property or savings will not be able to claim it.
An additional advantage of non-means-tested subsidies is that they avoid the transaction costs of meanstesting for both consumers and government.
Many of these individuals might not have saved much even in the absence of such wide-scale meanstesting.
However, such concerns can be solved by the use of meanstesting and similar devices, which amounts to distributing the equity dividends to those whose circumstances most demand it.
We will look at the issues of meanstesting, insurance benefits and categorical benefits within that context.
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