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Housing Benefit and Council Tax Benefit

 

 

 

 

The latest national statistics on Housing Benefit and Council Tax Benefit caseload produced by the Department for Work and Pensions were released on 15th December 2010 according to the arrangements approved by the UK Statistics Authority.

Statistics are based on Housing Benefit (HB) and Council Tax Benefit (CTB) recipients in Great Britain at November 2008 to September 2010.

 

The key points from the latest release are:

At September 2010:

  • The total number of people receiving Housing Benefit was 4.80 million, with 5.81 million claiming Council Tax Benefit.
  • 3.52 million Housing Benefit recipients were aged under 65, representing almost three quarters of all Housing Benefit recipients.
  • Just under 69 per cent of Housing Benefit recipients were tenants of Social Sector landlords and almost 31 per cent were tenants of Private Sector landlords.
  • Just over two thirds of both Housing Benefit and Council Tax Benefit recipients are in receipt of a Passported Benefit.
  • The overall average Housing Benefit award is £84.42 per week, and for Council Tax Benefit recipients, the overall average award was £15.91 per week.
  • 3.82 million Housing Benefit recipients were single, with almost two-thirds of these being female. Of the 1.60 million recipients with at least one child dependent, just over 1.1 million were single.

To access the latest release in full click here  

Additional tables are available here

Further information on the statistics is available here

Coverage: Great Britain

Geographic Breakdown:Local Authority


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