questionText: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of different approaches to the treatment of military compensation payments across welfare benefits means tests on claimants.
answerText: The receipt of War Pensions and Armed Forces Compensation Scheme (AFCS) awards is already fully ignored when calculating eligibility for Universal Credit (UC). The first £10 per week of a War Pension or AFCS award is disregarded in: income-related Employm...
heading: Means-tested Benefits: Veterans