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Number of Employment and Support Allowance benefit claimant households
(5605)
Metric type
- Help text
- This is the number of households where one or more persons 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 from DWP out-of-work benefit data.
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 ESA benefit claimant households
- Status
- Discontinued
- Output precision
- 0
- Polarity
- not applicable
- Measure
- ESA claimant households
- Dataset
- Number of Children living in Employment and Support Allowance Claimant Households
- Source
- Department for Work and Pensions
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