The government of the United Kingdom spent approximately ****million British pounds on income support in 2024/25, compared with ****million pounds in the previous financial year.

Income Support (IS) is a means tested benefit payable for people under Pension Credit age, working less than 16 hours per week, have no or little income and no more than £16000 in savings. The data is produced on a quarterly basis, and contains includes Name, National Insurance Number, Address, medical information, claim dates and payment history.

Income Support (IS) Claimants - people aged over 16 working less than 16 a week and having less money coming in than the law says they need to live on. https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/dwp-statistical-summaries Source: Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) Publisher: Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) Geographies: Lower Layer Super Output Area (LSOA), Middle Layer Super Output Area (MSOA), Ward, Local Authority District (LAD), County/Unitary Authority, Government Office Region (GOR), National Geographic coverage: Great Britain Time coverage: 1999 to current Type of data: Administrative data Notes: Income Support can be paid to a person who: is in Great Britain; is aged 16 or over; is not working 16 hours or more a week; has less money coming in than the law says they need to live on.

Latest estimates of take-up of income-related benefits for Great Britain covering: Income Support/Income-Related Employment and Support Allowance, Pension Credit & Housing Benefit. See: https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/income-related-benefits-estimates-of-take-up--2 which includes details of changes in benefits covered.

Source agency: Work and Pensions

Designation: Official Statistics

Language: English

Income support is state benefit for people who are on a low income. A person with savings over PS16,000 cannot get Income Support, and savings over PS6,000 affect how much Income Support can be received. Claimants must be between 16 and state pension age work fewer than 16 hours a week, and have a reason why they are not actively seeking work The data represented here is an extract of data relating to Income Support and based on the 694 geographic data zones in Glasgow. Dataset covers years 1999 - 2013. Full UK datasets are available from DWP. ((c) Crown copyright 2009). All counts have been adjusted using a variant of controlled rounding to avoid the disclosure of any personal information. All cells have been rounded to base 5 and the total equals the sum of the disaggregation shown. Please note that any counts that are shown as zero may not be a 'real' zero. . Although all small area totals are within 5 of the true value, aggregating them to form Local Authority totals is not recommended due to the fact that it is the sum of rounded figures. Local Authority totals should therefore be obtained from the DWP Tabulation Tool. More information about the DWP their tabulation tool and collections can be located here. Further qualifications or limitations to the data can be examined here.. Data is correct at time of upload 2014:04:10T16:40:00 Licence: None

Quarterly statistics on the number of Work Focused Interviews attended by, and number of sanctions applied to, Income Support Lone Parent claimants. https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/income-support-lone-parent-regime-figures-on-sanctions-and-work-focused-interviews--2

This statistical series has ended. The statistics are now included in our benefits statistical summaries and benefit sanctions statistics. https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/dwp-statistical-summaries https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/jobseekers-allowance-sanctions

Source agency: Work and Pensions

Designation: Official Statistics not designated as National Statistics

Language: English

Alternative title: ISLP Regime

In the 3 years to March 2021, white British families were the most likely to receive a type of state support.

Presents data from the Income Support (IS) Quarterly Statistical Enquiry, shows the key features of the IS population and how they compare with claimants in earlier periods, provides a summary of IS features and how they affect numbers of recipients and amounts of benefit in payment. Source agency: Social Development (Northern Ireland) Designation: National Statistics Language: English Alternative title: Income Support Summary Statistics

The information is aggregated data from scans of Income Support data at 1992 ward level.

Income Support (IS) Claimants - people aged over 16 working less than 16 a week and having less money coming in than the law says they need to live on.

Source: Department for Work and Pensions (DWP)

Publisher: Department for Work and Pensions (DWP)

Geographies: Lower Layer Super Output Area (LSOA), Middle Layer Super Output Area (MSOA), Ward, Local Authority District (LAD), County/Unitary Authority, Government Office Region (GOR), National

Geographic coverage: Great Britain

Time coverage: 1999 to 2009

Type of data: Administrative data

Notes: Income Support can be paid to a person who # is in Great Britain # is aged 16 or over # is not working 16 hours or more a week # has less money coming in than the law says they need to live on.

These figures provide early estimates and are designed to give indicative, timely information; they are not a substitute for the National Statistics. The early estimates will be replaced by the quarterly National Statistics covering the same period when they are published. The National Statistics are the finalised figures. https://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/+/http://research.dwp.gov.uk/asd/early_ests.asp https://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/+/http://research.dwp.gov.uk/asd/index.php?page=statistical_summaries NOTE: From January 2010 these will be release as part of the DWP Statistical Summary. https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/dwp-statistical-summaries Source agency: Work and Pensions Designation: Experimental Official Statistics Language: English Alternative title: Early Estimates for working age ISLP and ESA/IB

As of April 2025, there were over 7.7 million people on Universal Credit in Great Britain, compared with almost 6.7 million a year earlier.

As of January 2025, there were estimated to be approximately 7.4 million people on Universal Credit in Great Britain, of which over 1.12 million were aged between 35 and 39, the highest of the provided age groups.

Between April 2008 and March 2024, households from the Pakistani and Bangladeshi ethnic groups were the most likely to live in low income out of all ethnic groups, before and after housing costs.

About the dataset This dataset uses information from the DWP benefit system to provide estimates of children living in poverty for wards in London. In order to be counted in this dataset, a family must have claimed Child Benefit and at least one other household benefit (Universal Credit, tax credits or Housing Benefit) during the year. The numbers are calibrated to the Households Below Average Income (HBAI) dataset used to provide the government's headline poverty statistics. The definition of relative low income is living in a household with equivalised* income before housing costs (BHC) below 60% of contemporary national median income. The income measure includes contributions from earnings, state support and pensions. Further detail on the estimates of dependent children living in relative low income, including alternative geographical breakdowns and additional variables, such as age of children, family type and work status are available from DWP's statistical tabulation tool Stat-Xplore. Minor adjustments to the data have been applied to guard against the identification of individual claimants. This dataset replaced the DWP children in out-of-work benefit households and HMRC children in low income families local measure releases. This dataset includes estimates for all wards in London of numbers of dependent children living in relative low income families for each financial year from 2014/15 to the latest available (2022/23). The figures for the latest year are provisional and are subject to minor revision when the next dataset is released by DWP. Headlines Number of children The number of dependent children living in relative low income across London, rose from below 310,000 in the financial year ending 2015 to over 420,000 in the financial year ending 2020, but has decreased since then to below 350,000, which is well below the number for financial year ending 2018. While many wards in London have followed a similar pattern, the numbers of children in low income families in some wards have fallen more sharply, while the numbers in other wards have continued to grow. Proportion of children in each London ward Ward population sizes vary across London, the age profile of that population also varies and both the size and make-up of the population can change over time, so in order to make more meaningful comparisons between wards or over time, DWP have also published rates, though see note below regarding caution when using these figures. A dependent child is anyone aged under 16; or aged 16 to 19 in full-time non-advanced education or in unwaged government training. Ward level estimates for the total number of dependent children are not available, so percentages cannot be derived. Ward level estimates for the percentage of children under 16 living in low income families are usually published by DWP but, in its latest release, ward-level population estimates were not available at the time, so no rates were published. To derive the rates in this dataset, the GLA has used the ONS's latest ward-level population estimates (official statistics in development). Percentages for 2021/22 are calculated using the 2021 mid year estimates, while percentages for 2022/23 are calculated using the 2022 mid year estimates. As these are official statistics in development, rates therefore need to be treated with some caution. Notes *equivalised income is adjusted for household size and composition in order to compare living standards between households of different types.

As of the first quarter of 2025, there were estimated to be approximately 7.4 million people on Universal Credit in Great Britain, of which 4.31 million were women, and 3.1 million were men.