Question follow-through · 99555
Carers: Finance
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps he is taking to help ensure that local carer services are able to provide Income Maximisation services and crisis support to unpaid carers.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department for Work and Pensions
- Tabled
- 12 Dec 2025
- Target answer date
- 16 Dec 2025
- Answer
- 19 Dec 2025 · 7 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
12 Dec 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps he is taking to help ensure that local carer services are able to provide Income Maximisation services and crisis support to unpaid carers.
16 Dec 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
19 Dec 2025
Answer published
Overall Government responsibility for support for unpaid carers in England sits with the Department for Health and Social Care. DWP can provide financial support to qualifying unpaid carers through Carer’s Allowance, the Carer Element in Universal Credit ...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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