Written Question·Department for Work and Pensions·UIN 69180

Social Security Benefits: Migrants

Tabled: 18 July 2025
Answered: 28 July 2025

Question

Rupert Lowe

Restore Britain — Great Yarmouth

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what guidance she has issued to (a) work coaches and (b) case managers on processing claims for new claimants from (i) Israel and (ii) the Palestinian Occupied Territories.

Answer

Andrew Western
Guidance for DWP staff making benefit decisions is available on gov.uk. Specific guidance on new customers arriving in the UK from Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territories will be published in the usual way.