Severe Disability Premium

(asked on 11th January 2018) - View Source

Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people were claiming the severe disability premium as of April 2017.


Answered by
Sarah Newton Portrait
Sarah Newton
This question was answered on 16th January 2018

The information requested is not readily available and to provide it would incur disproportionate cost.

Such information that is available for Jobseeker’s Allowance, Income Support and Pension Credit claimants in May 2017 who were in receipt of disability premiums are shown in the following table.

Income Support, Pension Credit and Jobseeker’s Allowance claimants in receipt of the disability premium, severe disability premium and enhanced disability premium, May-2017, Great Britain

Income Support

Pension Credit

Jobseeker’s Allowance

Disability Premium

77,800

90

36,900

Severe Disability Premium

16,970

502,110

10,000

Enhanced Disability Premium

28,510

-

-

Source: DWP 100% and 5% Work and Pensions Longitudinal Study data

Notes

  1. Income Support and Pension Credit figures are rounded to the nearest 10. Jobseeker’s Allowance figures are rounded to the nearest 100. – denotes nil or negligible.
  2. For the JSA figures we have used the 5% WPLS data. The best statistics on benefits are derived from 100% data sources. However, the 5% sample data still provide some detail not yet available from the 100% data sources. DWP recommends that, where the detail is only available on the 5% sample data, the proportions derived should be applied to the overall 100% total for the benefit. This is the methodology used to derive the JSA figures provided here.
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