questionText: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will consider exempting compensation awarded to veterans for service-related (a) illness and (b) injury from means testing for benefits.
answerText: War Pensions and Armed Forces Compensation Scheme (AFCS) awards are already fully ignored when calculating eligibility for Universal Credit (UC).The first £10 of any War Pension payment or AFCS award made due to injury or disablement is disregarded in Pen...
heading: Means-tested Benefits: Veterans