Written Question·Department for Work and Pensions·UIN 901820
Disability: Cost of Living
Tabled: 10 December 2024
Answered: 16 December 2024
Named DayQuestion
Helen Maguire
Liberal Democrat — Epsom and Ewell
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps her Department is taking to help mitigate the impact of increases in the cost of living on disabled people.
Answer
Sir Stephen TimmsThe extra costs disability benefits are not means–tested, paid regardless of any income or savings and worth up to £9,580 a year, tax free.They were uprated by 6.7 per cent from April and will be uprated by 1.7 per cent from next April subject to Parliame...
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