Written Question·Department for Work and Pensions·UIN 45882

Means-tested Benefits: Veterans

Tabled: 17 April 2025
Answered: 29 April 2025
Named Day

Question

Kate Osborne

LabourJarrow and Gateshead East

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 24 March 2025 to Question 38671 on Means-tested Benefits: Veterans, whether her Department has considered requiring local authorities to disregard payments from the (a) Armed F

Answer

Sir Stephen Timms
Housing Benefit regulations permit local authorities to disregard beyond the standard disregard of £10 a week the whole or part of any war disablement pensions, war widow’s pensions, war widower’s pensions and guaranteed income payments under the Armed Fo...

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