Written questions

Social Security Benefits: Migrants

Commons · Question 69180 · Tabled 18 Jul 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions · Official record

Answered 28 Jul 2025

Question

Asked by Rupert Lowe

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what guidance she has issued to (a) work coaches and (b) case managers on processing claims for new claimants from (i) Israel and (ii) the Palestinian Occupied Territories.

Answer

Answered by Andrew Western, 28 Jul 2025

Guidance for DWP staff making benefit decisions is available on gov.uk. Specific guidance on new customers arriving in the UK from Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territories will be published in the usual way.