Question follow-through · 61339
Universal Credit: Veterans
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether she plans to allow veterans in receipt of the Armed Forces Independence Payment to claim the new health-related Universal Credit support.
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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Votes on this topic
- Opposition Day Motion: Defence spending and readiness - Prime Minister's Amendment · 23 Jun 2026
- Opposition day: Defence spending and readiness · 23 Jun 2026
- Armed Forces Bill Report Stage: Amendment 11 · 22 Jun 2026
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Recorded timeline
19 Jun 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether she plans to allow veterans in receipt of the Armed Forces Independence Payment to claim the new health-related Universal Credit support.
23 Jun 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
26 Jun 2025
Answer published
The Green Paper, “Pathways to Work: Reforming Benefits and Support to Get Britain Working” announced that we would be scrapping the Work Capability Assessment and moving to a single assessment for financial support related to health and disability benefit...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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