In 2024/25 the United Kingdom spent an estimated 313 billion British pounds on welfare, compared with 297 billion pounds in the previous year.

In 2024/25 the UK government is expected to spend approximately ******billion British pounds on benefits, compared with the previous year when benefit expenditure was ******billion pounds.

In 2022/23 the UK spent approximately 10.2 percent of its GDP on social security, compared with 10.7 percent in the previous year.

In 2023/24, public spending on social protection in the United Kingdom was ***** British pounds per capita, ranging from ***** pounds per capita in Northern Ireland, to ***** pounds per capita in South East England.

The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) Social and Welfare Statistics (previously Social Expenditure Database) available via the UK Data Service includes the following databases:

The OECD Social Expenditure Database (SOCX) has been developed in order to serve a growing need for indicators of social policy. It includes reliable and internationally comparable statistics on public and mandatory and voluntary private social expenditure at programme level. SOCX provides a unique tool for monitoring trends in aggregate social expenditure and analysing changes in its composition. The main social policy areas are as follows: old age, survivors, incapacity-related benefits, health, family, active labour market programmes, unemployment, housing, and other social policy areas.

The Income Distribution database contains comparable data on the distribution of household income, providing both a point of reference for judging the performance of any country and an opportunity to assess the role of common drivers as well as drivers that are country-specific. They also allow governments to draw on the experience of different countries in order to learn "what works best" in narrowing income disparities and poverty. But achieving comparability in this field is also difficult, as national practices differ widely in terms of concepts, measures, and statistical sources.

The Child Wellbeing dataset compare 21 policy-focussed measures of child well-being in six areas, chosen to cover the major aspects of children’s lives: material well being; housing and environment; education; health and safety; risk behaviours; and quality of school life.

The Better Life Index: There is more to life than the cold numbers of GDP and economic statistics. This Index allows you to compare well-being across countries, based on 11 topics the OECD has identified as essential, in the areas of material living conditions and quality of life.

The Social Expenditure data were first provided by the UK Data Service in March 2004.

The government of the United Kingdom spent over ****billion British pounds on disability living allowances in 2024/25, compared with ****billion in the previous financial year.

In 2024/25 the UK government spent approximately 12.3 billion British pounds on employment and support allowances, compared with 12.4 billion in the previous year.

This statistic shows the forecasted United Kingdom government spending on pension credit from fiscal year 2017/18 to fiscal year 2023/24. The cost of this welfare benefit is expected to decrease year on year until 2023/24, at which point spending is expected to be *** billion pounds.

Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner. The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) Social and Welfare Statistics (previously Social Expenditure Database) available via the UK Data Service includes the following databases: The OECD Social Expenditure Database (SOCX) has been developed in order to serve a growing need for indicators of social policy. It includes reliable and internationally comparable statistics on public and mandatory and voluntary private social expenditure at programme level. SOCX provides a unique tool for monitoring trends in aggregate social expenditure and analysing changes in its composition. The main social policy areas are as follows: old age, survivors, incapacity-related benefits, health, family, active labour market programmes, unemployment, housing, and other social policy areas. The Income Distribution database contains comparable data on the distribution of household income, providing both a point of reference for judging the performance of any country and an opportunity to assess the role of common drivers as well as drivers that are country-specific. They also allow governments to draw on the experience of different countries in order to learn "what works best" in narrowing income disparities and poverty. But achieving comparability in this field is also difficult, as national practices differ widely in terms of concepts, measures, and statistical sources. The Child Wellbeing dataset compare 21 policy-focussed measures of child well-being in six areas, chosen to cover the major aspects of children’s lives: material well being; housing and environment; education; health and safety; risk behaviours; and quality of school life. The Better Life Index: There is more to life than the cold numbers of GDP and economic statistics. This Index allows you to compare well-being across countries, based on 11 topics the OECD has identified as essential, in the areas of material living conditions and quality of life. The Social Expenditure data were first provided by the UK Data Service in March 2004. Main Topics: Topics covered by the database include:old-age cash benefitsdisability cash benefitsoccupational injury and diseasesickness benefitsservices for the elderly and disabled peoplesurvivorsfamily cash benefitsfamily servicesactive labour market programmesunemployment healthhousing benefitsother contingencies

Shrinking state spending in the UK has been accompanied by a profound restructuring of the welfare system, leading to financial insecurity for many people, culminating in extreme stress and serious deterioration of physical and mental health. Theory surrounding the impact of welfare advice on stress is lacking; this paper undertakes an in depth exploration of the experiences of stress among welfare advice seekers, considering these in light of existing substantive theories of stress and coping to generate new insight. A thematic analysis explored the experiences of stress in welfare advice seekers. Four overarching themes and twelve subthemes emerged. They are further understood utilising traditional theories of stress (Transactional Model of Stress and Coping and the Conservation of Resources theory), which then underpin the development of a ‘Stress Support Matrix’ and a holistic theory related specifically to welfare, stress and coping.

List of themes and subthemes.

In 2024/25, the government of the United Kingdom spent approximately **** billion British pounds on Personal Independence Payments, the main disability benefit for adults of working age in the UK.

The government of the United Kingdom is expected to spend approximately **** billion British pounds on Universal Credit in 2024/25, compared with just under ** billion pounds in the previous financial year.

The statistical significance associated with the standard deviation indicates whether preferences are heterogeneous among the sampled farmers.

In 2024/25, the UK government spent approximately 13.3 billion British pounds on child benefit payments, compared with 12.5 billion in the previous financial year.

Description of the variables used in the Beta regression.

The model with the lowest CAIC and BIC values is the best fit.