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Number of Income Support benefit claimant households
(5620)
Metric type
- Help text
- This is the number of households where one or more persons claimed Income Support at 31st May each year.
Income Support (IS) is intended to help people on low incomes who do not have to be available for employment. It can normally be claimed by people who are: aged 16 or over, not working or working under 16 hours per week (and/or with a partner working under 24 hours), not required to be available for full-time employment, and in receipt of insufficient income to meet prescribed needs.
The main types of people who receive it are lone parents, the long and short-term sick, people with disabilities and other special groups such as Carers.
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 IS benefit claimant households
- Status
- Discontinued
- Output precision
- 0
- Polarity
- not applicable
- Measure
- Income support claimant households
- Dataset
- Number of Children living in Income Support Claimant Households
- Source
- Department for Work and Pensions
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