Written Question·Department for Work and Pensions·UIN 71190

Means Tested Benefits: Veterans

Tabled: 29 August 2025
Answered: 4 September 2025

Question

Navendu Mishra

LabourStockport

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether her Department has made an assessment of the potential merits of categorising military compensation as exempt from eligibility criteria for means-tested benefits.

Answer

Sir Stephen Timms
I refer the honourable member to the answer given on 8 July 2025 to question UIN 63814