Social Security Benefits

(asked on 13th April 2021) - View Source

Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask Her Majesty's Government how many claimants are in receipt of (1) income-related Employment and Support Allowance, (2) income-based Jobseeker's Allowance, (3) Income Support, and (4) Housing Benefit; and how many claimants of each of those awards receive a Severe Disability Premium.


This question was answered on 26th April 2021

The statistics are shown in the following table:

Number of people in receipt of income-related Employment and Support Allowance (ESA), income-based Jobseeker’s Allowance (JSA), Income Support and Housing Benefit, and estimates of the number of those receiving Severe Disability Premium (SDP), February 2020, Great Britain

Recipients1

SDP recipients2

All income-related ESA

1,445,400

515,000

All income-based JSA

119,300

7,000

Income Support

319,600

16,000

Housing Benefit

3,218,600

..

Sources: Stat-Xplore, DWP Work and Pensions 5 per cent Sample, DWP 100 per cent Work and Pensions Longitudinal Study (WPLS) data, and 100 per cent Jobseekers Allowance Payment System Atomic Data Store

Notes:

  1. Benefit Caseloads have been rounded to the nearest hundred.
  2. SDP estimates have been rounded to the nearest thousand.
  3. “..” indicates that an SDP estimate for Housing Benefit is not readily available and to provide it would incur disproportionate cost.
  4. The SDP estimates supplied are derived from unpublished management information, which was collected for internal Departmental use only and has not been quality assured to National Statistics or Official Statistics publication standard. The data should therefore be treated with caution.

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