Written Question·Department for Work and Pensions·UIN 68285
Social Security Benefits
Tabled: 15 July 2025
Answered: 21 July 2025
Named DayQuestion
Vikki Slade
Liberal Democrat — Mid Dorset and North Poole
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of her Department's policy that claimants’ (a) appointees and (b) Lasting Power of Attorney appointees cannot submit online claims on those claimants
Answer
Sir Stephen TimmsIn law both appointees and attorneys can make online claims. They act for the claimant and can perform any function ordinarily required of the claimant. The department is continuing to modernise its services to provide customers and appointees/attorneys w...
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