Definition of "means-tested" [means-tested]

• Subject to a means test. (adjective)
• Simple past tense and past participle of means-test. (verb)

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• "Until recently, scholarship eligibility was not means-tested, but according to a study by the Pacific Research Institute, 67% of all scholarship recipients would qualify under a similar program that did measure families 'financial situations."
• "I.e., a real income tax goes to the Treasury for spending as general revenue, but the income tax on SS benefits is instead returned to the SSA, and so is indistingushable in effect from a means-tested benefit reduction."
• "Now one of the criticisms we hear of SS is that it was intended to be just that (albeit not means-tested); that it was supposed provide subsistence-level benefits, which have grown beyond the original intent."