Question follow-through · 43871
Housing: Social Security Benefits
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of changes to (a) Personal Independence Payment, (b) Universal Credit and (c) Carers’ Allowance on (i) adult social service capacity and (ii) housing
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- Answering body
- Department for Work and Pensions
- Tabled
- 3 Apr 2025
- Target answer date
- 23 Apr 2025
- Answer
- 23 Apr 2025 · 20 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
3 Apr 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of changes to (a) Personal Independence Payment, (b) Universal Credit and (c) Carers’ Allowance on (i) adult social service capacity and (ii) housing
23 Apr 2025
Target answer date
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23 Apr 2025
Answer published
DWP is working across Government, including with DHSC and MHCLG, to consider the impact of the reforms to the welfare system. We will also consider the impacts on benefits for unpaid carers as part of our wider consideration of responses to the consultati...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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