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.
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
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