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Social Security Benefits: Terminal Illnesses

Commons · Question 49687 · 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 Pathways to Work: Reforming Benefits and Support to Get Britain Working Green Paper, published on 18 March 2025, what estimate she has made of the number of people with terminal il

Answer

Answered by Sir Stephen Timms, 12 May 2025

We recognise that people nearing the end of their life are some of the most vulnerable people in society and need fast track and unqualified support at this difficult time. People who claim, or are in receipt of, Personal Independence Payment (PIP), and a...