Employment and Support Allowance

(asked on 17th July 2014) - View Source

Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the average employment and support allowance payment was in each year since 2008.


Answered by
Mark Harper Portrait
Mark Harper
Secretary of State for Transport
This question was answered on 22nd July 2014

The information as requested is shown in the table below:

Employment and Support Allowance, average weekly amount in payment.

Date

All Ages

Aged over 50

Nov-08

61.17

64.20

Nov-09

73.66

76.40

Nov-10

81.71

83.76

Nov-11

90.55

91.73

Nov-12

103.02

104.17

Nov-13

109.97

111.83

Source: DWP In Information Governance and Security Directorate 100% WPLS

Notes:

1. Average amounts are rounded to the nearest penny.

2. Incapacity Benefit was replaced by Employment and Support Allowance (ESA) from October 2008.

3. Figures shown do not include ‘nil payment’ cases.

4. Data is as at November in each year shown.

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