Question follow-through · 84490
Social Security Benefits: Visual Impairment
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that the (a) application and (b) appeal processes for disability benefits are accessible to (i) blind and (ii) visually impaired people in Surrey Heath cons
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- Answering body
- Department for Work and Pensions
- Tabled
- 22 Oct 2025
- Target answer date
- 27 Oct 2025
- Answer
- 3 Nov 2025 · 12 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
22 Oct 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that the (a) application and (b) appeal processes for disability benefits are accessible to (i) blind and (ii) visually impaired people in Surrey Heath cons
27 Oct 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
3 Nov 2025
Answer published
The (a) initial new claims application process for disability benefits is either paper or telephony based. A range of alternative formats are available for paper-based correspondence and is therefore accessible to blind and visually impaired customers. Cu...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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