Child benefit to be means tested

[mike1May]

...say Tories.

Link:
www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2010/oct/06/ids-means-test-child-benefit

Is the government making policy on the hoof?

For some reason the clicky above doesn't work. This one does - go to the first hit.

www.google.co.uk/search?sourceid=navclient&ie=UTF-8&rlz=1T4DKUK_en-GBGB205GB222&q=means+test+child+benefit

Its old news about how Child benefit would be absorbed into a new universal credit by 2017 which will be means tested so the current proposed Treasury CB changes will only be in place for 4-5 years.