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9 May 2025·Department for Work and Pensions·Answered

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What steps she is taking to ensure that financial reparations to LGBT veterans are not considered in assessments for benefit entitlement.

Financial recognition payments made to LGBT veterans as part of the LGBT Financial Recognition Scheme are not taken into account in the assessment of DWP means-tested benefits. The Department has legislated to disregard these payments and issued guidance to our staff to advise them that these payments should be disregarded in calculating benefit entitlement.

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