Question follow-through · 30183
Social Security Benefits
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps are being taken to expedite responses to claimants with (a) terminal cancer and (b) other life-limiting conditions.
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- Answering body
- Department for Work and Pensions
- Tabled
- 10 Feb 2025
- Target answer date
- 12 Feb 2025
- Answer
- 17 Feb 2025 · 7 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
10 Feb 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps are being taken to expedite responses to claimants with (a) terminal cancer and (b) other life-limiting conditions.
12 Feb 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
17 Feb 2025
Answer published
The primary way the Department supports people nearing the end of life is through special benefit rules which are known as the Special Rules for End of Life (SREL). These enable people who are nearing the end of their lives to get faster, easier access to...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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