Question follow-through · 84005
Means-tested Benefits: Veterans
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether veterans have their military compensation disregarded when means testing income for benefits.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department for Work and Pensions
- Tabled
- 21 Oct 2025
- Target answer date
- 23 Oct 2025
- Answer
- 28 Oct 2025 · 7 calendar days after tabling
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- Youth Guarantee: Armed Forces · 24 Oct 2025
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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
21 Oct 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether veterans have their military compensation disregarded when means testing income for benefits.
23 Oct 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
28 Oct 2025
Answer published
The honourable member has previously raised this broad issue and I refer her to the answer given on 8 July 63814
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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