Official Statistics

Alternative Claimant Count statistics, Great Britain: January 2013 to November 2018

New experimental statistical series that counts the number of unemployed claimants under Universal Credit.

Applies to England, Scotland and Wales

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Data tables: Alternative Claimant Count statistics, Great Britain: January 2013 to November 2018

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The latest release of these statistics can be found in the Alternative Claimant Count statistics collection.

These new Alternative Claimant Count statistics measure the number of people claiming unemployment related benefits by modelling what the count would have been if Universal Credit had been in place since 2013.

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Published 22 January 2019

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