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1683189

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date	17/01/2024
answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
answering dept id	29
answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
hansard heading	Social Security Benefits: Armed Forces
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether his Department has made an estimate of the cost of disregarding in full compensation awarded to wounded service people and veterans under the War Pensions and Armed Forces Compensation schemes as income under (a) Income Support, (b) Income-based Jobseeker’s Allowance, (c) Income-related Employment and Support Allowance, (d) Working Tax Credit and (d) Pension Credit.
tabling member constituency	Plymouth, Sutton and Devonport
tabling member printed	Luke Pollard
uin	10335
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/01/2024 answer text <p>Universal Credit replaced a number of benefits and tax credits. Within Universal Credit it was decided that War Pensions and Armed Forces Compensation Payments would not be taken into account as income in calculating the award.</p><p> </p><p>Guaranteed Income Payments, Service Attributable Pensions and service-attributable, non-taxable Service Invalidity Pensions are also not taken into account in the Universal Credit award.</p><p> </p><p>However, it has never been the intention that the rules around the treatment of income, or any other rules, should be changed across the legacy and other benefits to align them with Universal Credit.</p><p> </p><p>Social care payments are the responsibility of the Department of Health and Social Care.</p> answering member constituency Mid Sussex answering member printed Mims Davies grouped question UIN 10336 question first answered 25/01/2024 11:29:24 answering member 4513 label Biography information for Mims Davies
tabling member	4682 label Biography information for Luke Pollard

1683190

registered interest
date	17/01/2024
answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
answering dept id	29
answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
hansard heading	Universal Credit: Armed Forces
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate he has made of the annual cost to the public purse of fully disregarding as income compensation awarded to wounded service people and veterans under the War Pensions and Armed Forces Compensation schemes under Universal Credit.
tabling member constituency	Plymouth, Sutton and Devonport
tabling member printed	Luke Pollard
uin	10336
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/01/2024 answer text <p>Universal Credit replaced a number of benefits and tax credits. Within Universal Credit it was decided that War Pensions and Armed Forces Compensation Payments would not be taken into account as income in calculating the award.</p><p> </p><p>Guaranteed Income Payments, Service Attributable Pensions and service-attributable, non-taxable Service Invalidity Pensions are also not taken into account in the Universal Credit award.</p><p> </p><p>However, it has never been the intention that the rules around the treatment of income, or any other rules, should be changed across the legacy and other benefits to align them with Universal Credit.</p><p> </p><p>Social care payments are the responsibility of the Department of Health and Social Care.</p> answering member constituency Mid Sussex answering member printed Mims Davies grouped question UIN 10335 question first answered 25/01/2024 11:29:24 answering member 4513 label Biography information for Mims Davies
tabling member	4682 label Biography information for Luke Pollard

1303532

registered interest
date	17/03/2021
answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
answering dept id	29
answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
hansard heading	Kickstart Scheme: South West
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many jobs the Kickstart scheme has created since its creation in (a) Plymouth Sutton and Devonport constituency (b) Plymouth Moor View constituency (c) South West Devon and (d) the South West region.
tabling member constituency	Plymouth, Sutton and Devonport
tabling member printed	Luke Pollard
uin	170737
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/03/2021 answer text <p>I refer the honourable member to PQ <a href="https://questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-questions/detail/2021-02-23/157063" target="_blank">157063</a>. I also refer the honourable member to PQ <a href="https://questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-questions/detail/2021-03-09/165550?_sm_au_=iVVH8jWrFsrtkjD7W2MN0K7K1WVjq" target="_blank">165550</a> for regional breakdown of jobs made available for young people to apply to.</p> answering member constituency Mid Sussex answering member printed Mims Davies question first answered 23/03/2021 18:00:25 answering member 4513 label Biography information for Mims Davies
tabling member	4682 label Biography information for Luke Pollard