Question follow-through · 65835
Social Security Benefits: Armed Forces
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of disregarding military compensation as income across the social security system.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department for Work and Pensions
- Tabled
- 8 Jul 2025
- Target answer date
- 11 Jul 2025
- Answer
- 11 Jul 2025 · 3 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
8 Jul 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of disregarding military compensation as income across the social security system.
11 Jul 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
11 Jul 2025
Answer published
I refer the honourable member to the answer given on 8 July 2025 to question UIN 63814
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
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Motability: Rural Areas
10 Apr 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment has he made of the impact of the reduction in mileage allowance under the Mobility scheme from 1 July 2026 on disabled people living in rural areas.