universal benefit

universal benefit
   A benefit given to whole categories of a population, like children or old people, without any form of means testing. Universal benefits are administratively convenient. Proponents argue that they are simple, and also fair, because everyone has paid National Insurance contributions and should therefore receive benefits such as old age pensions, sickness and unemployment payments as a right. Opponents argue that such wide, blanket coverage makes them expensive and means that there is insufficient money available to help adequately those who are genuinely in need and who merit some special targeting.

Glossary of UK Government and Politics . 2013.

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