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Number of children aged 0-4 living in Universal Credit (Out-of-work) claimant households
(12805)
Metric type
- Help text
- This is the number of children aged 0-4 living in households where at least one parent or guardian claimed Universal Credit (Out-of-work) at 31st May each year.
Universal Credit (UC) was introduced in April 2013 in certain pathfinder areas of North West England. Since October 2013, Universal Credit has progressively been rolled out to other areas. Universal Credit aims to simplify the benefits system by providing a single payment based upon the circumstances of the household.
The following benefits will be replaced as Universal Credit rolls out: Income-based Jobseeker?s Allowance, Income-related Employment and Support Allowance, Income Support, Working Tax Credit, Child Tax Credit, Housing Benefit.
Universal Credit claimants have been defined as ?out-of-work? if they are required to undertake intensive work search, if they are expected to work in the future, if they are expected to take reasonable steps to prepare for work or if they are not expected to work at present due to health or caring responsibilities. This coincides with the following UC conditionality regimes: searching for work, planning for work, preparing for work and no work requirements. Those who are in work but are required to actively search for better paid or more work are also included in the searching for work regime. Those in the no work requirements group who are earning enough (i.e. the working - no requirements regime) are not included.
These statistics have been derived by matching DWP out-of-work benefit data with HMRC Child Benefit data. Children are matched through the Child Benefit claimant or partner records to DWP benefit claimants.
In 2012, the unavailability of a Child Benefit scan led to a slight change in methodology to enable production of the 2012 tables. DWP do not expect this to have an impact on outputs, however, please be aware of this when making time-series comparisons.
Data are rounded to the nearest ten for larger geographical areas. For smaller geographies such as Ward and Lower Layer Super Output Area, figures are independently rounded to five. Totals may not sum due to rounding.
- Modified
- 11 Nov 2020
- Data last updated
- 23 Jun 2022
- Short label
- Number of children aged 0-4 in Universal Credit (Out-of-work) benefit households
- Status
- Discontinued
- Output precision
- 0
- Polarity
- not applicable
- Measure
- Children Living In Universal Credit Claimant Households
- Dataset
- Number of Children living in Universal Credit (Out-of-work) Claimant Households
- Source
- Department for Work and Pensions
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