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Incapacity Benefit: Terminal Illnesses

Commons · Question 49686 · Tabled 30 Apr 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions · Official record

Answered 12 May 2025

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Asked by Jess Brown-Fuller

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to the Green Paper entitled Pathways to Work: Reforming Benefits and Support to Get Britain Working, published on 18 March 2025, what estimate her Department has made of the number of peo

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Answered by Sir Stephen Timms, 12 May 2025

We are currently consulting on whether to delay access to the health element of Universal Credit within the reformed system until someone is aged 22 as part of the ‘Pathways to Work: Reforming Benefits and Support to Get Britain Working’ Green Paper. http...