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Social Security Benefits

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps she is taking to help ensure that people claiming benefits have all the information required to access their entitlement.

answeredDepartment for Work and Pensions

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Answering body
Department for Work and Pensions
Tabled
4 Feb 2025
Target answer date
6 Feb 2025
Answer
6 Feb 2025 · 2 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 4 Feb 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps she is taking to help ensure that people claiming benefits have all the information required to access their entitlement.

  2. 6 Feb 2025

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 6 Feb 2025

    Answer published

    GOV.UK (www.gov.uk) provides information on eligibility and how to make a claim for benefits, including signposting to telephony routes (including textphone and Relay UK) for people who are unable to complete forms online. There are videos on the DWP YouT...

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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