Question follow-through · 100580
Dementia: Means-tested Benefits
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the fairness of the current means tested social care system for people with dementia in cases where individuals are required to sell their homes or exhaust lifetime s
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 16 Dec 2025
- Target answer date
- 18 Dec 2025
- Answer
- 5 Jan 2026 · 20 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
16 Dec 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the fairness of the current means tested social care system for people with dementia in cases where individuals are required to sell their homes or exhaust lifetime s
18 Dec 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
5 Jan 2026
Answer published
The adult social care system is means tested and provides funded support for those with the least financial means. While the Department sets the minimum thresholds for accessing local authority support, local authorities have the discretion to set more ge...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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