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Social Security Benefits: Reform

Asked by Neil Duncan-JordanLabourDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled Answered 7 April 2025UIN 42952

The question

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of the Pathways to Work: Reforming Benefits and Support to Get Britain Working Green Paper, published on 18 March 2025, on people in receipt of carer's allowance.

Answered by Sir Stephen Timms

This government is committed to supporting unpaid carers, who provide invaluable support to elderly or disabled people.

As the Green Paper sets out, we will consider the impacts on benefits for unpaid carers as part of our wider considerations of responses to the consultation as we develop our detailed proposals for change.

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