Means-tested Benefits: Veterans
Commons · Question 45882 · Tabled 17 Apr 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions · Official record
Answered 29 Apr 2025
Question
Asked by Kate Osborne
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
Answer
Answered by Sir Stephen Timms, 29 Apr 2025
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...