Question follow-through · 126562
Social Security Benefits: Artificial Intelligence
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment his Department has made of the potential merits of using generative AI to assist people making benefit claims.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department for Work and Pensions
- Tabled
- 13 Apr 2026
- Target answer date
- 15 Apr 2026
- Answer
- 20 Apr 2026 · 7 calendar days after tabling
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- Social Security Benefits: Fraud · 15 Apr 2026
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Recorded timeline
13 Apr 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment his Department has made of the potential merits of using generative AI to assist people making benefit claims.
15 Apr 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
20 Apr 2026
Answer published
We are adopting artificial intelligence in the Department for Work and Pensions to help colleagues deliver better outcomes for customers and to improve productivity and efficiency. While generative artificial intelligence is not currently used to assist p...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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Social Security Benefits: Fraud
15 Apr 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps he is taking to help tackle content advising individuals to misrepresent health conditions for financial gain though the benefits system.