Question follow-through · 38401
Social Security Benefits: Disability
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment she has made of the adequacy of the 1.7% increase in benefits that are linked to inflation from April 2025 for disabled people receiving a state pension.
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- Answering body
- Department for Work and Pensions
- Tabled
- 14 Mar 2025
- Target answer date
- 18 Mar 2025
- Answer
- 21 Mar 2025 · 7 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
14 Mar 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment she has made of the adequacy of the 1.7% increase in benefits that are linked to inflation from April 2025 for disabled people receiving a state pension.
18 Mar 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
21 Mar 2025
Answer published
Attendance Allowance (which provides support for pensioners with care needs) has been consistently uprated in line with inflation since it was introduced and will be increased by 1.7% from April 2025. This means that the higher rate of Attendance Allowanc...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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