Question follow-through · 94068
Universal Credit: Veterans
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether an armed forces pension is treated as unearned income for the purpose of calculating Universal Credit.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department for Work and Pensions
- Tabled
- 24 Nov 2025
- Target answer date
- 26 Nov 2025
- Answer
- 28 Nov 2025 · 4 calendar days after tabling
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More questions by this MP on Social security and pensions
- Universal Credit: Veterans · 1 Dec 2025
- Universal Credit: Veterans · 1 Dec 2025
- Workplace Pensions · 2 Dec 2025
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Recorded timeline
24 Nov 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether an armed forces pension is treated as unearned income for the purpose of calculating Universal Credit.
26 Nov 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
28 Nov 2025
Answer published
Regular, unearned income payments that are paid to meet living costs cause reductions in the customer’s Universal Credit entitlement pound for pound. This includes occupational pensions such as Armed Forces Pensions. War Pensions and Armed Forces Compensa...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
Strong links require the same MP, department and exact heading. Other same-department questions are shown as unreviewed candidates, not as confirmed follow-ups. No debate link is asserted unless a stable source relationship exists.
Universal Credit: Veterans
1 Dec 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 28 November 2025 to Question 94068 on Universal Credit: Veterans, if he will set out the reasons for differences in how Armed Forces Pensions and service attributable pensions
Universal Credit: Veterans
1 Dec 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 28 November 2025 to Question 94068 on Universal Credit: Veterans, whether the rules have changed since July 2024.
Workplace Pensions
2 Dec 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what discussions he has had with the Chancellor of the Exchequer on the potential impact of salary sacrifice pension scheme changes on the value of occupational pension funds.