Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether the changes to financial assessments for social care support in England will disregard military compensation awarded for illness and injury caused by Service.

The Care and Support (Charging and Assessment of Resources) Regulations 2014 allow certain income or capital lump sum payments to be disregarded from a means test. It requires any guaranteed income payments made under the Armed Forces and Reserve Forces (Compensation Scheme) Order 2011 for injury caused by service on or after 6 April 2005 to be disregarded. This will not be affected by the forthcoming social care charging reforms.