Question follow-through · 68285
Social Security Benefits
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of her Department's policy that claimants’ (a) appointees and (b) Lasting Power of Attorney appointees cannot submit online claims on those claimants
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- Answering body
- Department for Work and Pensions
- Tabled
- 15 Jul 2025
- Target answer date
- 21 Jul 2025
- Answer
- 21 Jul 2025 · 6 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
15 Jul 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of her Department's policy that claimants’ (a) appointees and (b) Lasting Power of Attorney appointees cannot submit online claims on those claimants
21 Jul 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
21 Jul 2025
Answer published
In law both appointees and attorneys can make online claims. They act for the claimant and can perform any function ordinarily required of the claimant. The department is continuing to modernise its services to provide customers and appointees/attorneys w...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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