Social Security Benefits: Terminal Illnesses

(asked on 4th February 2019) - View Source

Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people who have been on a DS1500 for over three years have had their benefits (a) reviewed and (b) withdrawn; and what conditions did they have.


Answered by
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Sarah Newton
This question was answered on 11th February 2019

The DS1500 is not a claim form and it is not obligatory to use it to provide evidence to support claims from people who are terminally ill. The information requested is not collated centrally and could only be provided at disproportionate cost.

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