Means-tested Benefits: Homes for Ukraine Scheme

(asked on 18th March 2022) - View Source

Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether the £350 payments made under the Homes for Ukraine scheme will be treated as an income for means tested benefits.


Answered by
David Rutley Portrait
David Rutley
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office)
This question was answered on 23rd March 2022

We are ensuring that those who have stepped up to sponsor a Ukrainian individual or family do not see their household benefit entitlements affected as a result. Payment of the £350 ‘thank you’ payment can be disregarded as a payment of local welfare provision made by local authorities.

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