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Number of children aged 0-4 living in Employment and Support Allowance claimant households
(5599)
Metric type
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- This is the number of children aged 0-4 living in households where at least one parent or guardian claimed Employment and Support Allowance at 31st May each year.
Employment and Support Allowance (ESA) replaced Incapacity Benefit (IB) and Income Support (IS) paid on the grounds of incapacity for new claims from 27th October 2008. Starting in October 2010 (in trial areas), most claimants who receive IB, SDA and IS paid on the grounds of illness or disability will be assessed to see if they qualify for ESA. If they qualify for ESA their IB, SDA or IS claim is converted into an ESA claim. For claimants who were previously in receipt of IB or SDA, their benefit will be converted to contributory ESA; if they were previously in receipt of IS their benefit will be converted to income-related ESA. In the same way as with IB, contributory ESA can be paid with an income-related top up and a transitional addition if appropriate.
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 ESA benefit households
- Status
- Discontinued
- Output precision
- 0
- Polarity
- not applicable
- Measure
- Children living in ESA households
- Dataset
- Number of Children living in Employment and Support Allowance Claimant Households
- Source
- Department for Work and Pensions
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