Work and pensions secretary Alan Johnson seems to have contradicted his own boss by issuing qualified support to LibDem proposals for a non-means-tested ‘citizens' pension'.
Tony Blair told Parliament following the publication of the Pensions Commission's report last week that means-testing was in placd to look after pensioners in poverty. "We have, and we make no apology for this, been trying to focus on the poorest pensioners first," he said. Johnson, however, told the Commons there was no plan to continue the means-tested Pension Credit indefinitely. Instead, he finds the notion of a universal pension a "really interesting" idea deserving closer examination. "I have an absolutely open mind, veering towards being very positive about it," Johnson h...
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