Official Statistics
Employment and Support Allowance, Income Support, Jobseeker’s Allowance and Universal Credit sanctions: data to October 2017.
Quarterly official and experimental publication providing sanctions statistics for:
Find further breakdowns of these statistics in Stat-Xplore, our online tool for exploring some of the Department for Work and Pensions’ main statistics. You can use Stat-Xplore to create your own tables and charts.
Find further information about the sanctions process, source of these statistics and the publication rounding policy in the background information and methodology documents.
From May 2018, the publication of benefit sanctions statistics will move from Wednesdays to Tuesdays. This means the next release will be published on 15 May 2018, as will the supporting tables and the Stat-Xplore sanctions data. This is to align with the Office for National Statistics (ONS) claimant count publication dates. Further information can be found on the changes to ONS release timetable.
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