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Means Tested Benefits: Veterans

Asked by Navendu MishraLabourDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled Answered 4 September 2025UIN 71190

The question

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether her Department has made an assessment of the potential merits of categorising military compensation as exempt from eligibility criteria for means-tested benefits.

Answered by Sir Stephen Timms

I refer the honourable member to the answer given on 8 July 2025 to question UIN 63814

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