Written Question·Department for Work and Pensions·UIN 77778

Social Security Benefits: Terminal Illnesses

Tabled: 16 September 2025
Answered: 15 October 2025

Question

Luke Taylor

Liberal DemocratSutton and Cheam

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment he has made of the implications for his Department’s policies of the report from the All Party Parliamentary Group on Hospice and End of Life Care entitled Inquiry into the financial imp

Answer

Sir Stephen Timms
The Department supports people nearing the end of life through the Special Rules for End of Life. These enable people who are nearing the end of their lives to get faster, easier access to certain benefits, without needing to attend a medical assessment o...

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