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date	13/02/2019
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Armed Forces Compensation Scheme: Age
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, for what reasons the age limit for priority cases for access to the Veterans UK Armed Forces Compensation Scheme has been set at 90 years of age.
tabling member constituency	Glasgow North
tabling member printed	Patrick Grady
uin	220940
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/02/2019 answer text <p>There is no age-based priority afforded to claimants under the Armed Forces Compensation Scheme. This is because the rules of the Scheme normally require a claim to be submitted within seven years of an illness or injury attributable to Service occurring.</p><p>As there are no time limitations attached to when a claim can be made under the War Pension Scheme, priority is afforded to claimants aged 90 or over in recognition of their advanced age, thereby allowing compensation claims to be completed as quickly as possible.</p> answering member constituency Bournemouth East answering member printed Mr Tobias Ellwood grouped question UIN 220941 question first answered 18/02/2019 16:57:09 answering member 1487 label Biography information for Mr Tobias Ellwood
tabling member	4432 label Biography information for Patrick Grady

1060571

registered interest
date	13/02/2019
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Armed Forces Compensation Scheme: Age
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of lowering the age limit for priority cases for the Veterans UK Armed Forces Compensation Scheme from 90 years of age.
tabling member constituency	Glasgow North
tabling member printed	Patrick Grady
uin	220941
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/02/2019 answer text <p>There is no age-based priority afforded to claimants under the Armed Forces Compensation Scheme. This is because the rules of the Scheme normally require a claim to be submitted within seven years of an illness or injury attributable to Service occurring.</p><p>As there are no time limitations attached to when a claim can be made under the War Pension Scheme, priority is afforded to claimants aged 90 or over in recognition of their advanced age, thereby allowing compensation claims to be completed as quickly as possible.</p> answering member constituency Bournemouth East answering member printed Mr Tobias Ellwood grouped question UIN 220940 question first answered 18/02/2019 16:57:09 answering member 1487 label Biography information for Mr Tobias Ellwood
tabling member	4432 label Biography information for Patrick Grady