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Means-tested Benefits: Veterans |
| Question ID: |
1794591 |
| UIN: |
45882 |
| House: |
Commons |
| Date tabled: |
2025-04-17 |
| Asking Member ID: |
4783 |
| Asking Member display name: |
Kate Osborne
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| Asking Member Twitter reference: |
Kate Osborne
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| Member interest: |
false |
| Question text: |
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 24 March 2025 to Question 38671 on Means-tested Benefits: Veterans, whether her Department has considered requiring local authorities to disregard payments from the (a) Armed F |
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true |
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| Date answered: |
2025-04-29 |
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false |
| Is correcting answer: |
false |
| Answering Member ID: |
163 |
| Answering Member display name: |
Sir Stephen Timms
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| Answering Member handle: |
stephenctimms
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| Answering Member Twitter reference: |
@stephenctimms
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| Answer text: |
Housing Benefit regulations permit local authorities to disregard beyond the standard disregard of £10 a week the whole or part of any war disablement pensions, war widow’s pensions, war widower’s pensions and guaranteed income payments under the Armed Fo... |
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| Answering body ID: |
29 |
| Answering body name: |
Department for Work and Pensions |
| Tweeted: |
true |