Data for people on Universal Credit is available in https://stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/webapi/jsf/login.xhtml">Stat-Xplore on a monthly basis.

These monthly experimental statistics include the total number of people who are on Universal Credit at 11 March 2021.

The statistics are broken down by:

• Jobcentre Plus office
• age
• employment status
• conditionality regime
• duration

Background information

Read the background information and methodology note for guidance on these statistics, such as timeliness, uses, and procedures.

Interactive statistics

View https://dwp-stats.maps.arcgis.com/apps/MapSeries/index.html?appid=f90fb305d8da4eb3970812b3199cf489">statistics on the Universal Credit claimants at Jobcentre Plus office level on a regional interactive map.

View a https://dwp-stats.maps.arcgis.com/apps/Cascade/index.html?appid=8560a06de0f2430ab71505772163e8b4">regional interactive map which shows statistics on households on Universal Credit at Local Authority level.

View https://stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/webapi/metadata/dashboards/uch/index.html">an interactive dashboard of the latest Universal Credit household statistics by region.

Find further breakdowns of these statistics on https://stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/">Stat-Xplore, an online tool for exploring some of DWP’s main statistics.

Next releases

People on Universal Credit statistics are released monthly.
Next release: 18 May 2021.

Households on Universal Credit statistics, and claims and starts for Universal Credit are released quarterly.
Next quarterly release: 18 May 2021.

Pre-release access

In addition to staff who are responsible for the production and quality assurance of the statistics, up to 24-hour pre-release access is provided to ministers and other officials. We publish the job titles and organisations of the people who have been granted up to 24-hour pre-release access to the latest Universal Credit statistics.

Experimental statistics on child maintenance arrangements administered by the Child Maintenance Service (CMS).

CMS statistics are also available on https://stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/webapi/jsf/login.xhtml" class="govuk-link">Stat-Xplore, an online tool for exploring some of the Department for Work and Pensions’ main statistics.

Child Support Agency arrears data

The Child Support Agency (CSA) arrears tables are suspended due to a data issue leading to missing cases within a source dataset. The remaining information does not provide a meaningful overview for CSA arrears data on its own.

The issue is being investigated. Once a solution is in place, we will reinstate the statistical series as soon as possible within the routine publication schedule, in line with the UK Statistics Authority https://code.statisticsauthority.gov.uk/" class="govuk-link">Code of Practice for Statistics. We plan to reinstate the series in the publication due on 13 December 2022. In the event that the data issue cannot be resolved by then, a further update will be provided.

These experimental statistics contain data for the total number of people who:

• have submitted a claim for Universal Credit with a personal declaration to start up to 11 August 2022
• have made a claim and have attended an initial interview, accepted their claimant commitment, and gone on to start Universal Credit up to 11 August 2022
• are on Universal Credit on 11 August 2022

Read the background information and methodology note for guidance on these statistics, such as timeliness, uses of the statistics and procedures.

Interactive tools

Software used for the interactive maps is no longer supported. These showed households on Universal Credit at the local authority level and people on Universal Credit at Jobcentre Plus level. The interactive maps have therefore been withdrawn and a replacement is currently under development. Once completed and launched, the interactive tool, Examine-a-Stat, will have improved functionality, including interactive maps, to better meet a wider range of user needs. It will be available in due course and the statistics are currently accessible on https://stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/">Stat-Xplore.

Pre-release access

In addition to staff who are responsible for the production and quality assurance of the statistics, up to 24-hour pre-release access is provided to ministers and other officials. We publish the job titles and organisations of the people who have been granted up to 24-hour pre-release access to the latest Universal Credit statistics.

The benefits statistical summary is a high level summary of the latest National Statistics on Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) benefits.

From February 2018, the main statistical release document is published on a 6 monthly basis, in February and August each year. Data is also released quarterly via Stat-Xplore, Nomis and data tables where appropriate.

More detailed information about the statistics included in the summaries can be found using https://stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/webapi/jsf/login.xhtml">Stat-Xplore and https://www.nomisweb.co.uk/">Nomis.

We made improvements to the geography information in our statistics during 2018. The changes reflect 2011 Census Output Areas and allow us to adhere to the latest geographical boundaries as defined by https://www.ons.gov.uk/methodology/geography/ukgeographies/censusgeography">Office for National Statistics’ guidance.

The improvements are:

• residency based geographical breakdowns for Housing Benefits were refreshed in August and published on https://stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/webapi/jsf/login.xhtml">Stat-Xplore with data from April 2018
• new geographies for most of our Legacy Benefits were refreshed in November and published on both Stat-Xplore and https://www.nomisweb.co.uk/">Nomis with data from May 2018

We have no plans to update historic series. Read the DWP statistical geographies note for more information.

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

Impact of Scottish devolution: changes to the presentation of statistics

The https://www.gov.scot/publications/responsibility-for-benefits-overview/" class="govuk-link">devolution of social security benefits to the Scottish Government is beginning to impact DWP statistics, where benefit administration is moving from DWP to the Scottish Government. As this change takes place, for a transitional period, Social Security Scotland will administer new claims and DWP will continue to administer existing claims under an agency agreement. DWP will no longer hold a complete count of the number of claimants across Great Britain.

Our DWP benefit statistics statistical summaries will now focus on DLA and PIP claims where policy ownership has been retained by DWP. Figures, charts and narratives will primarily reflect England, Wales and any unknown or abroad claims. The residual count of DLA claims in Scotland will be provided for information only.

To reflect these changes, on Stat-Xplore we have added a new split to DLA geography fields to provide breakdowns based on policy ownership. Users of these statistics should make data selections based on these policy ownership lines.

Statistics showing the number of applications and awards to the new Child Disability Payment have been released by Scottish Government. Similar statistics for Adult Disability Payment covering its initial roll out phase are also available.

Please refer to our background information note for more information on Scottish devolution.

Housing Benefit (HB) dataset: revision to previously published figures

We have introduced methodological changes in how some of our HB statistics are categorised, and some outcomes have changed in our published statistics.

Please note, at August 2022 changes were made to the following fields, with new revised data presented from April 2018:

• Passported Benefit Status
• Employment Status
• Removal of Spare Room Subsidy – Spare Room Subsidy Indicator
• Removal of Spare Room Subsidy – Number of Spare Rooms
• Removal of Spare Room Subsidy – Weekly Spare Room Reduction Amount bands
• Age

• Client Type

• Gender

Following a policy change, we recently discovered that the passporting indicator on Housing Benefit statistics had been incorrectly recording outcomes for a section of claimants who receive Housing Benefit and Universal Credit at the same time. The correct outcome should have been “Passported: In receipt of Universal Credit.”

We have now fixed this issue, but in doing so, other variables were affected where the visible presence of a Universal Credit claim changes some outcomes.

An earlier methodological change to make better use of evidence from the Customer Information System has also been applied to datasets between April 2018 and May 2020.

Please refer to our background information note for more information about these changes. Further details on HB methodology can be found in our methodology statement.

Housing Benefit: Hackney Borough Council data and Gloucester

Statistics about sanctions, including:

• Universal Credit (both full and live service)
• Jobseeker’s Allowance
• Employment and Support Allowance Work-Related Activity Group

The data will be available as normal for analysis on https://stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/webapi/jsf/login.xhtml" class="govuk-link">Stat-Xplore.

Experimental statistics on child maintenance arrangements administered by the Child Maintenance Service.

Child Maintenance Service statistics are available on https://stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/webapi/jsf/login.xhtml" class="govuk-link">Stat-Xplore, an online tool for exploring some of the Department for Work and Pensions’ main statistics.

Data for people on Universal Credit is available in Stat-Xplore on a monthly basis.

These monthly experimental statistics include the total number of people who are on Universal Credit at 10 December 2020.

The statistics are broken down by:

• Jobcentre Plus office
• age
• employment status
• conditionality regime
• duration

Interactive statistics

View https://dwp-stats.maps.arcgis.com/apps/MapSeries/index.html?appid=f90fb305d8da4eb3970812b3199cf489" class="govuk-link">statistics on the Universal Credit claimants at Jobcentre Plus office level in an interactive map.

View https://dwp-stats.maps.arcgis.com/apps/Cascade/index.html?appid=8560a06de0f2430ab71505772163e8b4" class="govuk-link">an interactive map which shows statistics on households on Universal Credit at Local Authority level.

View https://stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/webapi/metadata/dashboards/uch/index.html" class="govuk-link">an interactive dashboard of the latest Universal Credit household statistics by region.

Find further breakdowns of these statistics on https://stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/" class="govuk-link">Stat-Xplore, an online tool for exploring some of DWP’s main statistics.

Next releases

People on Universal Credit statistics are released monthly.
Next release: 23 February 2021.

Households on Universal Credit statistics, and claims and starts for Universal Credit are released quarterly.
Next quarterly release: 23 February 2021.

Pre-release access

In addition to staff who are responsible for the production and quality assurance of the statistics, up to 24-hour pre-release access is provided to ministers and other officials. We publish the job titles and organisations of the people who have been granted up to 24-hour pre-release access to the latest Universal Credit statistics.

More information

Read the background information and methodology note for more information about the Universal Credit statistics.

This publication provides quarterly statistics on claims paid under the IIDB scheme up to the end of June 2020.

Intention to publish IIDB statistics on Stat-Xplore

The next publication of the Industrial Injuries Disablement Benefit statistics (on 18 May 2021) will be released as ODS tables and on https://stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/webapi/jsf/login.xhtml" class="govuk-link">Stat-Xplore. Subsequent statistics will be released quarterly on Stat-Xplore only.

The data released on Stat-Xplore will incorporate all data currently in the ODS tables and allow users to produce richer tabulations and additional breakdowns. Publishing on Stat-Xplore is consistent with statistics on other benefits released as part of the Quarterly Benefit Summary. Email stats-consultation@dwp.gov.uk if you have any comments or questions about this.

Geography data

Geography information may not be up to date for some households. This affects the geography statistics from April 2020

Help us improve the statistics

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This is a quarterly National Statistics release of the main DWP-administered benefits via https://stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/webapi/jsf/login.xhtml">Stat-Xplore or supplementary tables where appropriate.

The statistical summary and Benefit Combinations documents are published on a 6-monthly basis in February and August each year. They contain a summary of the latest National Statistics on DWP benefits.

State Pension

During 2019, a new DWP computer system called “Get Your State Pension” (GYSP) came online to handle State Pension claims. The GYSP system is now handling a sizeable proportion of new claims.

We are not yet able to include GYSP system data in our published statistics for State Pension. The number of GYSP cases are too high to allow us to continue to publish State Pension data on Stat-Xplore. In the short term, we will provide GYSP estimates based on payment systems data. As a temporary measure, State Pension statistics will be published via data tables only. This release contains State Pensions estimates for the three quarters to May 2021.

For these reasons, a biannual release of supplementary tables to show State Pension deferment increments and proportions of beneficiaries receiving a full amount has been suspended. The latest available time period for these figures remains September 2020.

We are developing new statistical datasets to properly represent both computer systems. Once we have quality assured the new data it will be published on Stat-Xplore, including a refresh of historical data using the best data available.

Read our background information note for more information about this.

Housing Benefit: Hackney Borough Council data

Housing benefit data covering the periods November 2020 to July 2021 was affected by an interruption in the supply of data from Hackney Borough council. Please refer to our background information note for more information on the impacts to our statistics and how we have managed this interruption.

Hackney Borough Council have now resumed the supply of Housing Benefit data to DWP. Data for November 2021 is based on their most recent return. However, it should be noted that recovery work in Hackney is still ongoing, and therefore the statistics for this period are presented as a best available estimate.

Industrial Injuries Disablement Benefit statistics

Industrial Injuries Disablement Benefit (IIDB) statistics are now released on https://stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/webapi/jsf/login.xhtml">Stat-Xplore only. IIDB statistics on Stat-Xplore cover from March 2017 onwards. Read further guidance about this change and previously published ODS tables.

Please note that due to a production error we temporarily withdrew the figures from April 2021 onwards showing the number of awards for the Pneumoconiosis (Workers’ Compensation) Act 1979 and 2008 Mesothelioma Schemes. The headline figures for April to September 2021 were initially only made available in temporary data tables as part of this release of DWP benefits statistics.

The error which affected data from April 2021 has now been identified and the corrected figures are now available on Stat-Xplore.

Also published

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

• Maternity Allowance</li

This Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) publication shows the number of households that had their Housing Benefit capped from 15 April 2013 to February 2022.

Explore the statistics with our interactive tool

Find further breakdowns of benefit cap statistics in https://stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/" class="govuk-link">Stat-Xplore, an online tool for exploring some of DWP’s main statistics. You can use Stat-Xplore to create your own tables and charts.

More information

Read the background information and methodology publication for more information about the benefit cap statistics.

These experimental statistics contain data for the total number of people who are on Universal Credit on 10 November 2022.

Read the background information and methodology note for guidance on these statistics, such as timeliness, uses, and procedures.

Interactive tools

Software used for the interactive maps is no longer supported. These showed households on Universal Credit at the local authority level and people on Universal Credit at Jobcentre Plus level. The interactive maps have therefore been withdrawn and a replacement is currently under development. Once completed and launched, the interactive tool, Examine-a-Stat, will have improved functionality, including interactive maps, to better meet a wider range of user needs. It will be available in due course and the statistics are currently accessible on https://stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/">Stat-Xplore.

Pre-release access

In addition to staff who are responsible for the production and quality assurance of the statistics, up to 24-hour pre-release access is provided to ministers and other officials. We publish the job titles and organisations of the people who have been granted up to 24-hour pre-release access to the latest Universal Credit statistics.

These official statistics contain data on:

• the number of people who made a claim or started on Universal Credit to January 2025
• the number of people who are on Universal Credit to January 2025
• the number of households who are on Universal Credit to November 2024

Further information

See the background information and methodology note for guidance on these statistics, such as timeliness, uses, and procedures. Universal Credit claims and starts breakdowns by postcode are no longer available from April 2022 onwards, due to missing geography data. The missing information has been captured and action is being taken to reinstate these breakdowns in future releases. Updates will be provided via Stat-Xplore and the GOV.UK website.

Interactive tools

Software used for the interactive maps is no longer supported. These showed households on Universal Credit at the local authority level and people on Universal Credit at Jobcentre Plus level.

The interactive maps have therefore been withdrawn and a replacement is currently under development. Once completed and launched, the interactive tool (called Examine-a-Stat) will have improved functionality, including interactive maps, to better meet a wider range of user needs. It will be available in due course and the statistics are currently accessible on https://stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk">Stat-Xplore.

Pre-release access

In addition to staff who are responsible for the production and quality assurance of the statistics, up to 24-hour pre-release access is provided to ministers and other officials. We publish the job titles and organisations of the people who have been granted up to 24-hour pre-release access to the latest Universal Credit statistics.