Question follow-through · 8727
Carer's Allowance: Students
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of extending eligibility for Carer's Allowance to carers in full-time education.
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- Answering body
- Department for Work and Pensions
- Tabled
- 11 Oct 2024
- Target answer date
- 15 Oct 2024
- Answer
- 21 Oct 2024 · 10 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
11 Oct 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of extending eligibility for Carer's Allowance to carers in full-time education.
15 Oct 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
21 Oct 2024
Answer published
This Government recognises and appreciates the vital contribution made by all unpaid carers. We think it is right that people in full-time education should be supported by the educational maintenance system, rather than the social security benefit system....
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
Later records
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