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Social Security Benefits: Reform

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate she has made of the additional number of benefits recipients who will be subject to eligibility verification notices under the Public Authorities (Fraud, Error and Recovery) Bill as a resu

answeredIqbal MohamedDepartment for Work and Pensions

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Answering body
Department for Work and Pensions
Tabled
2 Apr 2025
Target answer date
7 Apr 2025
Answer
14 Apr 2025 · 12 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 2 Apr 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate she has made of the additional number of benefits recipients who will be subject to eligibility verification notices under the Public Authorities (Fraud, Error and Recovery) Bill as a resu

  2. 7 Apr 2025

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 14 Apr 2025

    Answer published

    The reforms in the Green Paper are still the subject of consultation and will undergo further development once responses have been considered.

Open official record

Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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