Carer's Allowance
(asked on 2nd June 2025) - View Source
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many applications for Care's Allowance have been processed by her Department in each month since 1 November 2023; and how many and what proportion of those applications took (a) between six and nine months and (b) more than nine months to be processed.
The number of Carer’s Allowance new claim applications cleared in each month, starting November 2023, is shown below in Table 1 below. This is based upon weekly data, starting week commencing 30th October 2023 (see ‘Notes to Table 1’ for more information).
For all other questions, the information requested is not readily available and to provide it would incur disproportionate cost.
Table 1: Number of Carer’s Allowance new claim applications cleared, by month, November 2023 to April 2025.
Month | Number of Carer’s Allowance New Claim Applications Cleared |
Nov-23 | 36,300 |
Dec-23 | 21,800 |
Jan-24 | 33,800 |
Feb-24 | 29,700 |
Mar-24 | 28,700 |
Apr-24 | 25,700 |
May-24 | 37,400 |
Jun-24 | 30,400 |
Jul-24 | 35,600 |
Aug-24 | 25,600 |
Sep-24 | 28,200 |
Oct-24 | 35,500 |
Nov-24 | 29,900 |
Dec-24 | 25,200 |
Jan-25 | 32,400 |
Feb-25 | 26,200 |
Mar-25 | 26,000 |
Apr-25 | 33,700 |
Source: DWP Management Information
Notes to Table 1:
- data is not seasonally adjusted
- numbers in thousands have been rounded to the nearest 100
- the monthly data shown is based on the summing of weekly management information data. Where a week falls across two calendar months, the week is attributed to the month in which the most number of working days falls. As a result, the number of weeks contributing to each month’s total volume cleared may vary across months.