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Question follow-through · 38671

Means-tested Benefits: Veterans

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of treating military compensation for injury in the same way as civil compensation for the purposes of means testing for benefits.

answeredDepartment for Work and Pensions

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Answering body
Department for Work and Pensions
Tabled
17 Mar 2025
Target answer date
24 Mar 2025
Answer
24 Mar 2025 · 7 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 17 Mar 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of treating military compensation for injury in the same way as civil compensation for the purposes of means testing for benefits.

  2. 24 Mar 2025

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 24 Mar 2025

    Answer published

    I refer the honourable member to the answer we gave on 3 March 2025 to question UIN 32275.

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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