Social Security Benefits

(asked on 18th January 2018) - View Source

Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what proportion of benefits remained unclaimed in 2017.


Answered by
Kit Malthouse Portrait
Kit Malthouse
This question was answered on 23rd January 2018

The Department publishes ‘Income-related benefits: estimates of take-up’ statistics annually.

The latest statistics, which relate to 2015/16, are published here:

https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/income-related-benefits-estimates-of-take-up-financial-year-201516

These statistics provide estimates of take-up, by caseload and expenditure, of the following income-related benefits only (other benefits are available but no take-up estimates are calculated):

  • Pension Credit
  • Housing Benefit
  • Income Support and Employment and Support Allowance (income-related)
  • Jobseeker’s Allowance (income-based)

They also provide the total and average amounts of benefit claimed and unclaimed for each of these benefits.

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