National and Official statistics on the main benefits
administered by the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP).
This collection brings together summary National and
Official DWP statistics
published quarterly on Stat-Xplore on the
following benefits:
- Attendance Allowance (AA)
- Benefit combinations
- Bereavement benefits (BB)
- Bereavement Support Payment (BSP)
- Carer’s Allowance (CA)
- Disability Living Allowance (DLA)
- Employment and Support Allowance (ESA)
- Housing Benefit (HB)
-
HB flows
- Incapacity Benefit (IB)
- Income Support (IS)
- Industrial Injuries Disablement Benefit (IIDB)
- Jobseeker’s Allowance (JSA)
- Pension Credit (PC)
- Personal Independence Payment (PIP)
- Severe Disablement Allowance (SDA)
- State Pension (SP)
- Universal Credit (UC)
- Widow’s Benefit (WB)
We publish National and Official statistics on the following
benefit breakdowns twice a year in May and November via data
tables within this collection:
We also publish Official statistics on Maternity Allowance
(MA) on a
quarterly basis via data tables.
Similar benefit
statistics for Northern Ireland are available.
Scottish devolution: changes to the presentation
of DWP statistics
The devolution
of social security benefits to the Scottish Government
is beginning to impact DWP statistics.
as DWP no longer
holds a complete count of the number of DLA claimants across
Great Britain.
Please refer to our background information
note for more information on presentational changes we
have made to our statistics in response to Scottish devolution.
Housing Benefit: Gloucester City Council and Hackney
Borough Council data
Gloucester City Council is unable to supply DWP with Housing
Benefit data until further notice. This has affected Housing
Benefit statistics from December 2021. Data problems are unlikely
to be fixed until later in 2023. Until then HB statistics that cover Gloucester
will be derived from earlier data using a data cleaning approach.
Hackney Borough Council have now resumed the supply of Housing
Benefit data to DWP.
Please refer to our background information
note for more information on how we have
managed HB data
interruptions and the impacts to our statistics.
State Pension
During 2019, a new DWP computer
system called “Get Your State Pension” (GYSP) came online to handle State
Pension claims. The GYSP system is now handling
a sizeable proportion of new claims.
We are not yet able to include GYSP system data in our
published statistics for State Pension. The number
of GYSP cases are too high to
allow us to continue to publish State Pension data on
Stat-Xplore. In the short term, we will provide GYSP estimates based on
payment systems data. As a temporary measure, State Pension
statistics will be published via data tables only.
The latest
release contains State Pensions estimates for the
quarters to August 2022.
For these reasons, a biannual release of supplementary tables to
show State Pension deferment increments and proportions of
beneficiaries receiving a full amount has been suspended. The
latest available time period for these figures remains September
2020.
We are developing new statistical datasets to properly represent
both computer systems. Once we have quality assured the new data
it will be published on Stat-Xplore, including a refresh of
historical data using the best data available.
For more information, see our background information
note.
