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Social Security Benefits: Migrants

Asked by Rupert LoweRestore BritainDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled Answered 28 July 2025UIN 69180

The question

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.

Answered by 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.

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