Income-related benefits: estimates of take-ups
Income-related benefits: estimates of take-up
The latest national statistics on Income-related benefits: estimates of take-up produced by the Department for Work and Pensions were released on 10th June 2010 according to the arrangements approved by the UK Statistics Authority.
Statistics on the latest estimates of take-up of income-related benefits for Great Britain covering: Income Support, income-related Employment and Support Allowance, Pension Credit, Housing Benefit, Council Tax Benefit and income-based Jobseeker's Allowance include data for the period up to the end of March 2009. The latest release updates the statistics previously released on 25th June 2009.
The key points from the latest release are:
Income Support and income-related Employment and Support Allowance - Take-up between 78% and 90% by caseload, compared with between 78% and 88% in 2007-08. There was no change in caseload between between 2007-08 and 2008-09.
Pension Credit - Take-up between 62% and 73% by caseload, compared with between 61% and 70% in 2007-08. There was evidence of small decrease in caseload take-up of about one percentage point between 2007-08 and 2008-09.
Housing Benefit (including Local Housing Allowance) - Take-up between 77% and 86% by caseload, compared with between 80% and 87% in 2007-08. There was no evidence of a change in overall caseload take-up between 2007-08 and 2008-09.
Council Tax Benefit - Take-up between 63% and 70% by caseload, compared with between 62% and 68% in 2007-08. There was evidence to suggest an increase in caseload take-up of at least one percentage between 2007-08 and 2008-09.
Jobseeker's Allowance (Income-based) - Take-up between 47% and 59% by caseload, compared with between 52% and 60% in 2007-08. Due in part to high and changing bias, there was no conclusive evidence of a change in caseload take-up.
Technical Note on changes to the modelling that underpins Income Related Benefits Estimates on Take-Up
To access the latest release in full click here Additional tables are available here Further information on the statistics is available here Coverage: GB Geographic Breakdown: Great Britain Next Release Date: This has been delayed please click here to see the News and Announcements page for further details
