Question follow-through · 8476
Means-tested Benefits: Veterans
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will consider exempting compensation awarded to veterans for service-related (a) illness and (b) injury from means testing for benefits.
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- Answering body
- Department for Work and Pensions
- Tabled
- 9 Jun 2026
- Target answer date
- 11 Jun 2026
- Answer
- 25 Jun 2026 · 16 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
9 Jun 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will consider exempting compensation awarded to veterans for service-related (a) illness and (b) injury from means testing for benefits.
11 Jun 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
25 Jun 2026
Answer published
War Pensions and Armed Forces Compensation Scheme (AFCS) awards are already fully ignored when calculating eligibility for Universal Credit (UC).The first £10 of any War Pension payment or AFCS award made due to injury or disablement is disregarded in Pen...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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