Question follow-through · 17657
Armed Forces Compensation Scheme: Means-tested Benefits
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether he has made an assessment of the potential impact of treating Armed Forces Compensation Scheme payments as income for means-tested benefit assessments.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department for Work and Pensions
- Tabled
- 9 Jul 2026
- Target answer date
- 13 Jul 2026
- Answer
- 15 Jul 2026 · 6 calendar days after tabling
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Votes on this topic
- Opposition Day Motion: Defence spending and readiness - Prime Minister's Amendment · 23 Jun 2026
- Opposition day: Defence spending and readiness · 23 Jun 2026
- Armed Forces Bill Report Stage: Amendment 11 · 22 Jun 2026
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Recorded timeline
9 Jul 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether he has made an assessment of the potential impact of treating Armed Forces Compensation Scheme payments as income for means-tested benefit assessments.
13 Jul 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
15 Jul 2026
Answer published
I refer the Hon. Member to the answer I gave on 1st July 2026 to Question UIN 12993.
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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