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Means-tested Benefits: Veterans

Asked by Kate OsborneLabourDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled Answered 24 March 2025UIN 38671

The question

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of treating military compensation for injury in the same way as civil compensation for the purposes of means testing for benefits.

Answered by Sir Stephen Timms

I refer the honourable member to the answer we gave on 3 March 2025 to question UIN 32275.

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