Despite the guarantee credit not changing a lot, there is roughly a halving of the overall reliance on means-tested benefits, so there is a move, but I acknowledge that it is not by any means a complete elimination of the use of means-tested benefits.
Pensions Bill
Proceeding contribution from
Lord Freud
(Conservative)
in the House of Lords on Wednesday, 18 December 2013.
It occurred during Debate on bills
and
Committee proceeding on Pensions Bill.
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