Written Question·Department for Work and Pensions·UIN 120434
Social Security Benefits: Surrogacy
Tabled: 12 March 2026
Answered: 23 March 2026
Named DayQuestion
Carla Lockhart
Democratic Unionist Party — Upper Bann
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether payments received by a surrogate mother in the UK are treated as income for the purposes of benefits assessments.
Answer
Sir Stephen TimmsSurrogacy payments in the United Kingdom should only be for reasonable expenses. They are not taken into account as income for Universal Credit purposes. If any of the surrogacy payment is unspent in the period it is paid for, then this can be treated as ...
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