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October 2003
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Conservative proposals for the future of the basic state pensions
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In the great state pension debate, the main political parties have switched sides from where they stood six years ago. In opposition Labour argued that pensioners should no longer be subjected to means-testing, but in government they have extended it. Now it is the Conservatives in opposition who say means-testing should go, despite raising meanstested benefits more than universal support when they were in office.

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