Question follow-through · 26261
Social Security Benefits: Disability
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 7 January 2025 to Question 21895 on Benefits for people with disabilities, what assessment she has made of the adequacy of the benefits available for people with disabilities.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department for Work and Pensions
- Tabled
- 23 Jan 2025
- Target answer date
- 27 Jan 2025
- Answer
- 28 Jan 2025 · 5 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
23 Jan 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 7 January 2025 to Question 21895 on Benefits for people with disabilities, what assessment she has made of the adequacy of the benefits available for people with disabilities.
27 Jan 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
28 Jan 2025
Answer published
There are a wide range of studies and estimates for the extra cost of disability. As such, there is no objective way of deciding what an adequate level of the extra costs disability benefits should be, and everyone has different requirements reflecting th...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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