Question follow-through · 61401
Social Security Benefits: Veterans
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps she is taking to ensure that the reintroduction of face-to-face benefit assessments does not negatively impact veterans with (a) PTSD and (b) mobility impairments.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department for Work and Pensions
- Tabled
- 19 Jun 2025
- Target answer date
- 23 Jun 2025
- Answer
- 26 Jun 2025 · 7 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
19 Jun 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps she is taking to ensure that the reintroduction of face-to-face benefit assessments does not negatively impact veterans with (a) PTSD and (b) mobility impairments.
23 Jun 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
26 Jun 2025
Answer published
We already undertake a number of face-to-face benefit assessments. However, as announced in Pathways to Work: Reforming Benefits and Support to Get Britain Working Green Paper, we intend to do more while preserving alternative health assessment channels t...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
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