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Welfare Reform Bill

Proceeding contribution from Lord Freud (Conservative) in the House of Lords on Monday, 10 October 2011. It occurred during Debate on bills and Committee proceeding on Welfare Reform Bill.
I did not mention it for a very good reason. I am currently consulting across government on how best to recognise war pensions and other payments to veterans, war widows and dependants. The reason this is not straightforward is because the practice across all the different benefits varies wildly. When you create one single clean system, you have to go nap on one approach. What I am looking at doing is getting the right approach which recognises that someone in receipt of a war pension is owed an extra reward for that experience. We have to work out the optimum way of doing that. As I say, I am consulting on that.
Type
Proceeding contribution
Reference
730 c450GC 
Session
2010-12
Chamber / Committee
House of Lords Grand Committee
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