UK - Means-testing benefits is failing to help the poorest people, Conservative pension spokesman David Willetts claims.
He said figures showed the poorest of single pensioners received £43 per week less than those in the middle of the income distribution and £60 less than the richest of single pensioners in 2001-02....
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