Social Security Benefits: Terminal Illnesses

(asked on 21st May 2019) - View Source

Question to the Northern Ireland Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, whether she has made an assessment of the potential merits of a review by officials in the Northern Ireland Department for Communities of the legal definition of terminal illness which determines eligibility to fast-track access to social security payments for terminally ill claimants; and if she will make a statement.


Answered by
John Penrose Portrait
John Penrose
This question was answered on 23rd May 2019

The Secretary of State for Northern Ireland is aware of the Scottish Government’s recent changes to statutory guidance on terminal illness. Any decision to review the legal definition of terminal illness in Northern Ireland would be a matter for incoming Northern Ireland Ministers to consider.

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