Benefit sanctions statistics to April 2019
Sanctions statistics for Jobseeker’s Allowance, Employment and Support Allowance and Universal Credit, data to April 2019.
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The latest release of these statistics can be found in the benefit sanctions statistics collection.
Quarterly official and experimental publication includes sanctions statistics for:
- Universal Credit (both full and live service)
- Jobseeker’s Allowance
- Employment and Support Allowance Work-Related Activity Group
Find further breakdowns of these statistics in Stat-Xplore, an online tool for exploring some of the Department for Work and Pensions’ main statistics. You can use Stat-Xplore to create your own customised tables and charts.
Find further information about the sanctions process, source of these statistics and the publication rounding policy in the background information and methodology document.
Last updated 27 February 2020 + show all updates
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Removed ‘all sanction decisions’ statistics for Universal Credit full service from the PDF publication and from Table 1.1 in the data tables. These have been removed because the published statistics were missing some data as a result of how the information is recorded.
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Removed tables 4.1 'JSA (new regime) sanctions - individuals receiving repeat adverse sanction decisions in the last year' and 4.2 'ESA (new regime) sanctions - individuals receiving repeat adverse sanction decisions in the last year'. DWP statisticians identified an issue with the methodology used to produce the statistics for JSA and ESA repeat sanctions.
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