Question follow-through · 20793
Carer's Allowance: Pensioners
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will allow people in receipt of a state pension to claim carer’s allowance.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department for Work and Pensions
- Tabled
- 17 Dec 2024
- Target answer date
- 19 Dec 2024
- Answer
- 23 Dec 2024 · 6 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
17 Dec 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will allow people in receipt of a state pension to claim carer’s allowance.
19 Dec 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
23 Dec 2024
Answer published
Pensioners can claim Carer’s Allowance, but under overlapping benefit rules it is not normally payable. I refer the honourable member to the answer I gave on 17 December 2024 to question UIN 18844 which sets this out.
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
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