Question follow-through · 120434

Social Security Benefits: Surrogacy

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether payments received by a surrogate mother in the UK are treated as income for the purposes of benefits assessments.

answeredDepartment for Work and Pensions

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Answering body: Department for Work and Pensions
Tabled: 12 Mar 2026
Target answer date: 23 Mar 2026
Answer: 23 Mar 2026 · 11 calendar days after tabling

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12 Mar 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether payments received by a surrogate mother in the UK are treated as income for the purposes of benefits assessments.
23 Mar 2026
Target answer date
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23 Mar 2026
Answer published
Surrogacy payments in the United Kingdom should only be for reasonable expenses. They are not taken into account as income for Universal Credit purposes. If any of the surrogacy payment is unspent in the period it is paid for, then this can be treated as ...

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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