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Income-related benefits: estimates of take-up: financial year 2017 to 2018 (27 February 2020)
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Income-related benefits: estimates of take-up: financial year 2017 to 2018
Estimates of take-up of income-related benefits for Great Britain for the financial year 2017 to 2018.
Published 27 February 2020
From:
Department for Work and Pensions
Documents
Income-related benefits: estimates of take-up in 2017 to 2018
Ref: ISBN 978-1-78659-183-8PDF, 343KB, 11 pages
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Pension Credit: tables 2017 to 2018
ODS, 78.3KB
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Housing Benefit: tables 2017 to 2018
ODS, 55.1KB
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Income Support and Employment and Support Allowance: tables 2017 to 2018
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Quick guide to published tables and results 2017 to 2018
PDF, 331KB, 2 pages
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Background information and methodology 2017 to 2018
PDF, 1.49MB, 31 pages
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Details
These statistics contain information on the take-up of the main income-related benefits in Great Britain for the financial year 2017 to 2018. These are:
- Pension Credit
- Housing Benefit
- Income Support
- income-related Employment and Support Allowance
Main data sources used
The main data sources used to produce estimates of take-up are:
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Family Resources Survey – used to model the population in private households entitled to income-related benefits
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DWP and local authority benefit records data – the basis of the Work and Pensions Longitudinal Study
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DWP statistical summaries – providing the counts of benefit recipients and typical amounts received
Published 27 February 2020