Question follow-through · 9302
Social Security Benefits: Undocumented Migrants
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps her Department has taken to prevent illegal immigrants claiming benefits.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department for Work and Pensions
- Tabled
- 15 Oct 2024
- Target answer date
- 17 Oct 2024
- Answer
- 21 Oct 2024 · 6 calendar days after tabling
Elapsed calendar days describe the record timeline, not whether Parliament considers an answer on time.
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Recorded timeline
15 Oct 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps her Department has taken to prevent illegal immigrants claiming benefits.
17 Oct 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
21 Oct 2024
Answer published
All benefits claimants have to verify their identity before they can receive payments. For any claimants who aren’t British or Irish, we verify that they have a valid UK immigration status. Illegal immigrants cannot access taxpayer-funded benefits (public...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
Later records
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