DWP STATISTICAL SUMMARY - SEPTEMBER 2004
15 Sep 2004 10:45 AM
Coverage: Great Britain (unless otherwise stated)
Theme: Social and Welfare
Client Group Analysis:
Families with Children:
At May 2004:
* 2.7 million children (21 per cent of the total population of
children aged under 16 and young adults aged 16 to 18 in full-time
education), were living in families claiming a key benefit and
receiving additional amounts of benefit and/or CTC for them.
* 65 per cent of them had been on benefit for at least two years.
Population of Working Age:
At May 2004:
* 4.86 million people of working age (13.7 per cent) were claiming a
key benefit.
* 48 per cent of claimants were women.
Population over State Pension Age:
At May 2004:
* Just over 10.6 million (99.9 per cent) people over State Pension
age were claiming a key benefit.
* 37 per cent of claimants were men.
Income Support - Aged Under 60
At 30th May 2004:
* All claimants: 2.2 million (92 per week).
* Lone parents (excluding the disabled) represent 37 per cent of the
IS caseload -810 thousand (115 per week).
* Disabled recipients represent 51 per cent of the caseload - 1,116
thousand (82 per week).
* Almost two thirds of recipients are women.
* Pension Credit (PC) replaced the Minimum Income Guarantee (MIG) in
Income Support on 6th October 2003.
Aged 60 and over - Pension Credit/Minimum Income Guarantee:
At 30th May 2004:
* From 6th October 2003 Pension Credit (PC) replaced the Minimum
Income Guarantee (MIG).
* PC caseload: 2.5 million compared to 1.8 million MIG at May 2003.
* PC average amounts: 43 per week. Care should be taken when
comparing PC amounts to MIG amounts because of other changes that
were introduced on 6th October 2003.
Jobseeker's Allowance (not seasonally adjusted):
At 13th May 2004:
* Total claimants: 839 thousand.
* Total recipients: 755 thousand, 141 thousand with only
contribution-based JSA, 614 thousand with income-based JSA (including
15 thousand with underlying entitlement to contribution-based
benefit).
* Average weekly entitlement: 61 income-based, 53
contribution-based.
* Just over a quarter of claimants were women.
Incapacity Benefit:
At 31st May 2004:
* Total claimants: 2.4 million.
* Total recipients: 1.5 million.
* Average amount: 85 per week.
* Almost two-thirds of recipients were men.
Attendance Allowance:
At 31st May 2004:
* Total recipients: 1.4 million of whom 705 thousand receive the
higher rate and 687 thousand the lower.
* Average amount: 49 per week.
* 70 per cent of recipients were women.
Carer's Allowance:
At 31st May 2004:
* Total entitled: 651.9 thousand of whom 425.5 thousand are in
payment.
* Average amount: 43.17 per week (provisional).
* 75 per cent of recipients were women.
Disability Living Allowance:
At 31st May 2004:
* Total recipients: 2.6 million.
* Average amount: 58 per week.
* 562 thousand received only the mobility component, 347 thousand
received only the care component and 1.7 million received both
mobility and care components
* 50 per cent of recipients were women.
Industrial Injuries Disablement Benefit:
At 31st March 2004:
* New Claims in the quarter (Accidents and Prescribed Diseases): 14.4
thousand.
* 15 per cent of these new claims were from women.
* New claims in the quarter (Reduced Earnings Allowance): 0.7
thousand.
* Total people in payment (Industrial Injuries Disablement Benefit
and Reduced Earnings Allowance): 341.3 thousand (41 per week).
Housing Benefit:
At 13th May 2004:
* Total recipients: 3.9 million.
* Average weekly amount: 60.
* Total recipients (aged over 60): 1.6 million
* Total recipients (with dependants): 1.2 million (at May 2003).
* 73 per cent of HB recipients are also in receipt of IS, PC (GC
element) or JSA (income based).
Council Tax Benefit:
At 13thMay 2004:
* Total recipients: 4.8 million (excludes second adult rebates).
* Average weekly amount: 13.
* Total recipients (aged over 60): 2.4 million
* Total recipients (with dependants): 1.2 million (at May 2003).
* 71 per cent of CTB recipients are also in receipt of IS, PC (GC
element) or JSA (income based).
State Pension:
At 31st March 2004:
* Total recipients: 11.4 million, of whom 1 million reside overseas.
* Average amount of entitlement to State Pension:
All pensioners: 79 per week.
Men: 95 per week.
Women: 69 per week.
* 63 per cent of recipients were women.
Widows Benefits:
At 31st March 2004:
* Total recipients: 155.7 thousand.
* Average amount of entitlement: 76 per week.
* All recipients were women.
Bereavement Benefits:
At 31st March, 2004:
* Total recipients: 46.4 thousand.
* Average amount of entitlement: 83 per week.
* 68 per cent of recipients were women.
Child Support Agency:
At 31st May 2004:
* From the 3rd March 2003 all new applications have been assessed
under a new scheme. These cases are stored on a new computer system
with some old scheme cases linked to new cases. There have been
378.0 thousand applications and 107.4 thousand calculations made.
* There are up to 201 thousand cases assessed under old rules that
are currently administered on the new IT system. These cases are not
included in this section.
* Total 'live' and fully assessed cases on the "old" system: 726.4
thousand.
The Appeals Service:
Quarter ending March 2004:
* Number of new lodgements: 59.4 thousand.
* Total number of appeals cleared at hearings: 47.0 thousand. Of
these, 20.5 thousand (43.7 per cent) were found in favour of the
appellant.
* 52.9 per cent of appeals heard at oral hearings were found in the
appellant's favour.
* 21.0 per cent of appeals heard at paper hearings were found in the
appellant's favour
New Deal for Young People:
By end of June 2004:
* Over 1 million completed spells on New Deal by the end of June
2004; there have been 1.16 million starts and 1.08 million leavers.
At the end of June 2004, there were 82.8 thousand current
participants.
* Of the leavers, 39 per cent have entered sustained unsubsidised
jobs, 12 per cent have transferred to other benefits, 20 per cent
have left for other known reasons, and 30 per cent for unknown
reasons.
Young People into Employment:
By end of June 2004:
* 518.2 thousand young people in jobs to the end of June 2004. Of
which, 409.9 thousand were sustained jobs, and 108.2 thousand were
jobs lasting less than 13 weeks.
New Deal for Lone Parents:
By end of June 2004:
* Starts on the NDLP caseload reached 657.6 thousand at the end of
June 2004, an increase of 36.7 thousand on March 2004.
* A total of 550.9 thousand lone parents had left NDLP by end of June
2004.
* 106.7 thousand lone parents were participating on NDLP at end of
June 2004.
Lone Parents into Employment:
By end of June 2004:
* 312.8 thousand jobs gained by participants on New Deal for Lone
Parents, with 276.7 thousand individual lone parents gaining a job.
New Deal for Long Term Unemployed People aged 25+:
By end of June 2004:
* 721.5 thousand starts on New Deal by the end of June 2004 - 665.8
thousand have left. A total of 53.3 thousand were participating on
the enhanced programme at the end of June 2004 (some 2.5 thousand are
still recorded as participating on the pre-April 2001 programme).
Long Term Unemployed People aged 25+ into Employment:
By end of June 2004:
* 194.7 thousand people on New Deal into jobs to the end of June
2004. Of which, 152.0 thousand were sustained jobs, and 42.6
thousand were jobs lasting less than 13 weeks.
New Deal for Disabled People:
By end of June 2004:
* 99.3 thousand starts to NDDP, of which 63 per cent were male, and
37 per cent were female.
* 70.9 thousand current participants, of which 73 per cent were aged
35 and over.
New Deal for Disabled People into Jobs:
By end of June 2004:
* 45.4 thousand people into jobs through NDDP, of which 63 per cent
were male, and 37 per cent were female.
Employment Zone Participants:
By the end of June 2004:
* 94.9 thousand people started on an Employment Zone for the first
time, with another 35.3 thousand returning for a subsequent spell. 84
per cent of all entrants were male, 67 per cent were white, and 22
per cent were recorded as having a disability.
* At end of June 2004, there were 17.4 thousand people participating
on an Employment Zone.
Employment Zone Participants into Employment:
By end of June 2004:
* 48.9 thousand Employment Zone participants entered employment by
June 2004.
* 37.9 thousand Employment Zone participants had been employed for 13
weeks or more by the end of June 2004.
Work Based Learning for Adults:
By end of June 2004:
* 256,300 starts to Work Based Learning for Adults of which 223,200
have left, leaving 33,100 participants.
* Of the leavers, 40 per cent have gained a job within 13 weeks of
leaving.
Work Based Learning for Adults into Employment:
By the end of March 2004:
* 57,200 people into jobs from Work Based Learning for Adults. Of
these, 8,500 people gained jobs from Basic Employability Training,
17,400 from Short Job Focused Training, 20,700 from Longer
Occupational Training, and 10,600 from Self Employment.
Notes to Editors
Future Publications
The DWP has recently completed a consultation exercise with the
customers of National Statistics publications about modernising these
outputs. The proposals included the use of a new data source: the
Work and Pensions Longitudinal Study, and making our statistical
information available more flexibly via the internet.
A detailed response to the points arising from the consultation will
be published shortly on the DWP Internet.
Background
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is produced to the high professional standards outlined in the
National Statistics Code of Practice. National Statistics
publications undergo regular quality assurance reviews to ensure that
they meet customer needs. They are produced free from any political
interference.
The purpose of the DWP Statistical Summary is to provide an
up-to-date overview of the most important benefits, schemes, agencies
and associated bodies administered by the DWP in a concise format.
Users seeking more detailed information are directed to the web pages
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information about a wide range of DWP responsibility.
* From June 2003, the Department released most of its statistics on
the same day. All tables previously published within individual
benefit publications are now available on the Department's Internet
site at: http://www.dwp.gov.uk/asd/statistics.asp.
Figures in this, and future DWP publications are affected by the
introduction of Child Tax Credit (CTC) in April 2003. The main
changes are:
* Child dependency increases paid with non-income related benefits
are abolished for new claims to State Pension, Bereavement Benefit,
Incapacity Benefit and Carer's Allowance from April 2003.
* From April 2004 CTC replaced the child elements of Income Support
(IS) and income-based Jobseeker's Allowance (JSA(IB).
Dates when there may be particular changes in the figures are:
* April 2003, when Child dependency increases paid with non-income
related benefits were abolished for new claims.
* October 2003, when families on Minimum Income Guarantee (MIG) with
children had child elements migrated to CTC.
* Financial year 2004/05, when families on Income Support and
income-based Jobseeker's Allowance will have child elements migrated
to CTC.
A small number of IS/ JSA(IB) recipients will no longer be eligible
once CTC is in payment. This is because CTC payments will raise total
income above the IS/JSA(IB) threshold, or other income exceeds the
threshold once child allowances are removed. We therefore advise that
customers exercise caution when performing year on year comparisons,
or when comparing with the previous quarter.
Additional financial year benefit expenditure information is
available in the Department for Work and Pensions Departmental Report
2004 (http://www.dwp.gov.uk/publications/dwp/2004.foreword/home.asp).
The average weekly amounts and caseloads in this summary are derived
from administrative data which have been validated, cleaned and
published by DWP. Many of these statistics are calculated from
samples drawn at particular points in time and are therefore subject
to some sampling variability. The figures have not been seasonally
adjusted. Average amounts are rounded to the nearest pound.
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