Laid - 17 Mar 2025 In Force 7 Apr 2025
This instrument contains provisions necessary to give full effect to the 2025 benefits and pensions up-rating exercise.
Found: Social Security Benefits Up-rating Regulations 2025
Mentions:
1: Stephen Timms (Lab - East Ham) I beg to move,That the draft Social Security Benefits Up-rating Order 2025, which was laid before this - Speech Link
2: Stephen Timms (Lab - East Ham) Security Benefits Up-rating Order 2025 will increase relevant state pension rates by 4.1%, in line with - Speech Link
3: Stephen Timms (Lab - East Ham) Security Benefits Up-rating Order, if Parliament approves it this afternoon, commits the Government - Speech Link
4: Debbie Abrahams (Lab - Oldham East and Saddleworth) security claimants whose benefits have been stopped. - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Baroness Sherlock (Lab - Life peer) Security Benefits Up-rating Order. - Speech Link
2: Baroness Sherlock (Lab - Life peer) Security Benefits Up-rating Order. - Speech Link
3: None As Gemma herself advises, that has to mean bold and real change by investing in social security. - Speech Link
4: Lord Bishop of Chelmsford (Bshp - Bishops) I very much hope that the Government will consider the adequacy of social security in their review of - Speech Link
Laid - 15 Jan 2025 In Force Not stated
This Order is made as a consequence of a review under sections 150 and 151A of the Social Security Administration Act 1992 (c. 5) (“the Administration Act”) and includes details of the sums mentioned in those sections.
Found: Social Security Benefits Up-rating Order 2025
Published - Wednesday 15th January 2025
Department: Department for Work and PensionsThis Order is made as a consequence of a review under sections 150 and 151A of the Social Security Administration Act 1992 (c. 5) (“the Administration Act”) and includes details of the sums mentioned in those sections.
Found: The Social Security Benefits Up-rating Order 2025
Asked by: Apsana Begum (Independent - Poplar and Limehouse)
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 20 December 2024 to Question 20272 on Social Security Benefits, whether she plans to conduct a statutory public inquiry under the Inquiries Act 2005 into (a) deaths and (b) serious harm linked to the social security system.
Answered by Stephen Timms - Minister of State (Department for Work and Pensions)
The department is fully supportive of the Work and Pensions Select Committee’s ‘safeguarding vulnerable claimants’ inquiry, which is examining how the department supports vulnerable benefit claimants and whether its approach to safeguarding needs to change. I look forward to reading the Committee’s report and recommendations when this inquiry concludes.
We are reviewing the approach we take as a department to safeguard our most vulnerable customers – we are working to introduce and publish a DWP ‘safeguarding approach’. This will tell customers what support is available, how they access it and the level of service they can expect.
Oct. 21 2024
Source Page: Devolved Social Security Benefits consultations responses: FOI releaseFound: Devolved Social Security Benefits consultations responses: FOI release
Asked by: David Chadwick (Liberal Democrat - Brecon, Radnor and Cwm Tawe)
Question to the Wales Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, how many people in Wales will be impacted by welfare reform.
Answered by Jo Stevens - Secretary of State for Wales
Information on the impacts of the Pathways to Work Green Paper will be published in due course, with some information already published alongside the Spring Statement. These publications can be found here Pathways to Work: Reforming Benefits and Support to Get Britain Working Green Paper - GOV.UK.
There are currently 347,100 Universal Credit claimants in Wales, with 267,100 claimants of Personal Independence Payments. 89,000 claimants in Wales are receiving both Personal Independence Payments and Universal Credit. Overall, 15% of working age people in Wales receive a disability or incapacity benefit and around a quarter are neither in work nor looking for work.
To raise living standards in every corner of our country, we need to unleash the talents of people across the UK wherever they live. However, the system we inherited has left millions of people trapped on benefits, without the support they need to build a better life.
We know many sick and disabled people want to work, with the right help and support. They deserve the same rights, chances and choices to get good jobs as anybody else. That is why the government is fixing the social security system so that it gives those who could work the help they need, and those who can’t work the dignity and security they deserve.
The Department for Work and Pensions will continue to work with the Welsh government and other devolved governments, which will include looking at Welsh specific impacts to help support people back into work if they are able to, but also protect those who rely on our social security system.
Asked by: Neil Duncan-Jordan (Labour - Poole)
Question to the HM Treasury:
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how she determines which state benefits are (a) subject to and (b) exempt from tax.
Answered by James Murray - Exchequer Secretary (HM Treasury)
The tax treatment of social security benefits depends on their purpose. Generally, benefits that replace income are subject to tax, while those intended to support specific needs are exempt.
Asked by: Apsana Begum (Independent - Poplar and Limehouse)
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant of the Answer of 7 April 2025 to Question 42059 on Social Security Benefits: Reform, whether her Department plans to make an assessment of the potential impact of the measures in the Green Paper: Pathways to Work, published on 18 March 2025 on (a) the health of those people receiving related benefits and (b) societal health inequalities.
Answered by Stephen Timms - Minister of State (Department for Work and Pensions)
A programme of analysis to support development of the proposals in the Green Paper and to monitor and evaluate their impact will be developed and undertaken in the coming months.