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The statistical summary document is published on a 6-monthly basis in February and August each year. It contains a high level summary of the latest National Statistics on Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) benefits.

National Statistics of the main DWP-administered benefits are released on Stat-Xplore or supplementary tables where appropriate.

Age and gender

We have made a minor methodological change to the production of statistics for the following benefits:

Attendance Allowance (AA)
Bereavement benefits (BB)
Carer’s Allowance (CA)
Disability Living Allowance (DLA)
Employment and Support Allowance (ESA)
Housing Benefit (HB)
Incapacity Benefit (IB)
Income Support (IS)
Jobseeker’s Allowance (JSA)
Pension Credit (PC)
Severe Disablement Allowance (SDA)
State Pension (SP)
Widow’s Benefit (WB)

From February 2020 (changes to HB data apply from March 2020) we are using data from DWP’s Customer Information System (CIS) to verify and corroborate age and gender variables. This change has helped us to reduce the number of unknown values for age and gender and also to correct dates of birth where they were apparently incorrect.

CIS is a computer system used by DWP to store and keep up-to-date basic identifying information such as gender, addresses, dates of birth, National Insurance numbers.

State Pension

During 2019, a new DWP computer system called “Get Your State Pension” came online to handle new State Pension claims. The number of State Pension claims being handled by the new system has been gradually building up, and at February 2020 there were approximately 120 cases in payment on the new system. We are working to develop new statistical datasets that will enable us include these cases in our published statistics in the near future. Once we have quality assured the new data we will announce further plans for their inclusion.

Housing Benefit flows

From November 2020 we plan to publish Housing Benefit Flows datasets on Stat-Xplore. We will be able to provide on-flow and off-flow data for Housing Benefit on our Stat-xplore tool, offering enhanced functionality for our users. See the Housing Benefit flows publication for more information.

Bereavement Support Payment

The Bereavement Support Payment statistics published on this page are for April 2017 to March 2020.

During the quality assurance of BSP experimental official statistics, DWP statisticians have identified an issue with claims in payment figures and these data tables have been removed, but Table 1 showing claims received is still available.

Further information can be found on the DWP benefits statistics collection page and in the “Welfare and Benefits” community on StatsUserNet

Email stats-consultation@dwp.gov.uk if you have any comments or questions.

Also published

Also published as part of this release are statistics on:

More information

Find further information about the statistics, including details on changes and revisions, in the background and methodology documents.

Published 11 August 2020

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