Average annual incomes, taxes and benefits, and household characteristics of retired and non-retired households in the UK. Data for financial years, by quintile and decile groups, country and region and tenure type.

Quarterly Official Statistics on Access to Work. Records numbers of new customers helped in the period and numbers of existing customers who continue to receive support.

Source agency: Work and Pensions

Designation: Official Statistics not designated as National Statistics

Language: English

Alternative title: AtW Official Statistic

This table contains information on social benefits provided by general government. The terms and definitions used for the totals are in accordance with the framework of National Accounts. National Accounts are based on the international definitions of the European System of Accounts (ESA 2010). Small temporary differences with publications of the National Accounts may occur due to the fact that government finance statistics are sometimes more up to date. The terms used for the individual social benefits are based on national legislation. Social benefits by employers in the context of other employment related social insurance schemes are not included in this table.

Data available from: Yearly figures from 1995.

Status of the figures: The figures for the period 1995-2023 are final. The figures for 2024 are provisional.

Changes as of 24 June 2025: Annual figures for year 2024 are available. The annual figures for 2023 are now final. In the context of the revision policy of National accounts, the annual figures 2022 have been revised. Additionally, a correction has been made to the figures for 2022 for the Work and Care Act (WAZO) benefits related to the expanded partner leave.

When will new figures be published? Yearly figures are published six months after the end of the year concerned. These yearly figures are revised eighteen months after the end of the year concerned. Please note that there is a possibility that adjustments might take place at the end of March or September, in order to provide the European Commission with the most actual figures. More information on the revision policy of National Accounts can be found under 'relevant articles' under paragraph 3.

Statistics on the average number of days to process (i) new (ii) change of circumstances of HB / CTB claims. Note: Prior to Oct 2011 this was named HB/CTB Right Time Indicator. https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/housing-benefit-and-council-tax-benefit-statistics-on-speed-of-processing--2 Source agency: Work and Pensions Designation: Official Statistics not designated as National Statistics Language: English Alternative title: HB Speed of Processing

This release looks at a snapshot of claimants each year and examines the total duration those individuals had spent in receipt of one or more of the main DWP working-age benefits over the preceding four years.

Source agency: Work and Pensions

Designation: Official Statistics not designated as National Statistics

Language: English

Alternative title: Duration on working-age benefits, Great Britain

Facebook received 73,390 user data requests from federal agencies and courts in the United States during the second half of 2023. The social network produced some user data in 88.84 percent of requests from U.S. federal authorities. The United States accounts for the largest share of Facebook user data requests worldwide.

Data tables relating to the number of open Survivor's Pension and Survivor's Allowance claims in the year. https://www.gov.je/benefits/deathbereavement/pages/widowwidowerbenefit.aspx

Official statistic. Statistics on persons receiving income-guarantee benefits in the Basque Country are compiled by the Department of Labour and Employment in collaboration with Lanbide and the Directorate of Social Services.

Provides monthly and quarterly information on all HMRC taxes, including tax receipts, the number of taxpayers, personal tax credits, child benefit and estimates of the cost of tax expenditures and structural relief. Source agency: HM Revenue and Customs Designation: National Statistics Language: English Alternative title: Revenue Based Taxes

For further background information on benefits statistics please follow links below: Benefit Statistics - Further Information Personal Independence Payment Statistics - Further information Geographical boundaries for Universal Credit statistics for the years 2017- 2023 are based on the Claimants postcode at 2023. Figures relate to Claimants at February each year and are rounded to the nearest 10.

National Statistics release of the main DWP-administered benefits via Stat-Xplore or supplementary tables where appropriate.

Housing Benefit

An interruption in the supply of data from Hackney Borough Council has affected Housing Benefit (HB) statistics from December 2020. Data problems are unlikely to be fixed until late into 2021 and until then HB statistics that cover Hackney will be derived from earlier data. This means estimates for London and Hackney on Stat-Xplore will deteriorate in their quality and accuracy. To find out what we are doing to maintain our HB statistics, please refer to our background information note for the DWP benefits statistics. Please also note caveats and warnings on Stat-Xplore where they appear.

State Pension

During 2019, a new DWP computer system called “Get Your State Pension” (GYSP) came online to handle new State Pension claims. Initially, the GYSP system handled claims received online through the GOV.UK site, where people have been sent invitations to claim in this new way.

The number of State Pension recipients being handled by the new system has been gradually building up, and at November 2020 there were approximately 47,100 cases in payment on the new system. This represents 0.4% of the total number of State Pension recipients.

We are not yet able to include GYSP data in our published statistics for State Pension. Figures will therefore carry an undercount. We are developing new statistical datasets that will enable us include them in the near future. Once we have quality assured the new data we will announce further plans for their inclusion.

Further information about this release can be found on the DWP benefits statistics collection page and in the “Welfare and Benefits” community on StatsUserNet.

We now have a dedicated email address for these statistics. If you have any comments or questions, get in touch at: benefits.statistics@dwp.gov.uk.

Also published

Also published as part of this release as data tables are statistics on:

• Maternity Allowance
• Industrial Injuries Disablement Benefit

More information

A statistical summary document is published every 6 months in February and August each year. It contains a high level summary of the latest National Statistics on DWP benefits.

Find further information about the statistics, including details on changes and revisions, in the background and methodology documents.

Claimant Count by sex for local and unitary authorities, counties and regions in the UK, published monthly. These are official statistics in development.

Official statistic. Statistics on persons receiving income-guarantee benefits in the Basque Country are compiled by the Department of Labour and Employment in collaboration with Lanbide and the Directorate of Social Services.

The social benefit to households as a share of the GDP in France increased by *** percentage points in 2024 in comparison to the previous year. Social benefits other than social transfers in kind includes any social benefit provided to the public other than in kind benefits. In kind benefits are any non-cash benefits with monetary value provided to an employee (for example, discounted train tickets when working for a train company).Find more statistics on other topics about France with key insights such as social benefit to households as a share of the GDP and household consumption spending as a share of GDP.

Official statistic. Statistics on persons receiving income-guarantee benefits in the Basque Country are compiled by the Department of Labour and Employment in collaboration with Lanbide and the Directorate of Social Services.

Comparison of how disabled and non-disabled people participate in society in a number of life areas and the reasons why people do not take part in these areas as much as they would like to.

Source agency: Work and Pensions

Designation: Official Statistics not designated as National Statistics

Language: English

Alternative title: LOS