Question follow-through · 46911
Social Security Benefits: Reform
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to the Pathways to Work: Reforming Benefits and Support to Get Britain Working Green Paper, published on 18 March 2025, whether people under 22 in receipt of benefits will lose those bene
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- Answering body
- Department for Work and Pensions
- Tabled
- 22 Apr 2025
- Target answer date
- 24 Apr 2025
- Answer
- 29 Apr 2025 · 7 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
22 Apr 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to the Pathways to Work: Reforming Benefits and Support to Get Britain Working Green Paper, published on 18 March 2025, whether people under 22 in receipt of benefits will lose those bene
24 Apr 2025
Target answer date
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29 Apr 2025
Answer published
We are consulting on delaying access to the health element of UC within the reformed system until someone is aged 22, on the basis that the savings generated would be reinvested into work support and training opportunities for this age group to support th...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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