Official Statistics

Income-related benefits: estimates of take-up: financial year 2015/16

Estimates of take-up of income-related benefits for Great Britain for the financial year 2015/16.

• From: Department for Work and Pensions
• Published: 14 September 2017

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Income-related benefits: estimates of take-up in 2015/16

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Pension Credit: tables

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Housing Benefit: tables

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Income Support and Employment and Support Allowance: tables

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Jobseeker's Allowance: tables

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A quick guide to published tables and results

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Background information and methodology

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Details

Introduction

These statistics contain information on the take-up of the main income-related benefits in Great Britain for the financial year 2015/16. They are:

• Pension Credit
• Income Support
• income-related Employment and Support Allowance
• income-based Jobseeker’s Allowance
• Housing Benefit

Estimates for 2009/10, 2012/13, 2013/14 and 2014/15 are also presented.

Main data sources used

The main data sources used to produce estimates of take-up are:

• the Family Resources Survey, used to model the population in private households entitled to income-related benefits
• the DWP and local authority benefit records data – the basis of the Work and Pensions Longitudinal Study
• the DWP Statistical Summaries – providing the counts of benefit recipients and typical amounts received

Changes to this publication

Changes to the methodology for calculating take-up in this publication were announced in August 2017. See the statistical notice for more information.

Published 14 September 2017