Question follow-through · 51114

Social Security Benefits: Veterans

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps she is taking to ensure that financial reparations to LGBT veterans are not considered in assessments for benefit entitlement.

answeredDepartment for Work and Pensions

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Answering body
Department for Work and Pensions
Tabled
9 May 2025
Target answer date
13 May 2025
Answer
19 May 2025 · 10 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 9 May 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps she is taking to ensure that financial reparations to LGBT veterans are not considered in assessments for benefit entitlement.

  2. 13 May 2025

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 19 May 2025

    Answer published

    Financial recognition payments made to LGBT veterans as part of the LGBT Financial Recognition Scheme are not taken into account in the assessment of DWP means-tested benefits. The Department has legislated to disregard these payments and issued guidance ...

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