Official Statistics

Benefit sanctions statistics to July 2020 (experimental)

Statistics on the number of sanctions imposed on people who receive JSA, ESA (WRAG), IS or Universal Credit.

Applies to England, Scotland and Wales

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Data tables: benefit sanctions statistics to July 2020 (experimental)

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Details

The latest release of these statistics can be found in the benefit sanctions statistics collection.

This release of statistics on benefit sanctions includes data up to July 2020.

This publication provides sanctions statistics on:

  • Jobseeker’s Allowance (JSA)
  • Employment and Support Allowance (ESA) Work Related Activity Group (WRAG)
  • Income Support (IS)
  • Universal Credit (UC) (both full and live service)

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Updates to this page

Published 10 November 2020
Last updated 10 June 2021 + show all updates
  1. Revised data tables – figures in table 4.1 in the data table published in November 2020 have been amended. The data in the original table 4.1 was for the entire time series (from May 2016), rather than for the latest year as stated in the table title. This has been replaced by data for the previous year only.

  2. First published.

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