Written Question·Department for Work and Pensions·UIN 38671

Means-tested Benefits: Veterans

Tabled: 17 March 2025
Answered: 24 March 2025
Named Day

Question

Kate Osborne

LabourJarrow and Gateshead East

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of treating military compensation for injury in the same way as civil compensation for the purposes of means testing for benefits.

Answer

Sir Stephen Timms
I refer the honourable member to the answer we gave on 3 March 2025 to question UIN 32275.