DWP benefits statistics
Accredited Official Statistics and Official Statistics on the main benefits administered by the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP).
This collection brings together DWP Accredited Official Statistics and Official Statistics published quarterly on Stat-Xplore on the following benefits:
- Attendance Allowance (AA)
- Benefit combinations
- Bereavement benefits (BB)
- Bereavement Support Payment (BSP)
- Carer’s Allowance (CA)
- Disability Living Allowance (DLA)
- Employment and Support Allowance (ESA)
- Housing Benefit (HB)
- HB flows
- Incapacity Benefit (IB)
- Income Support (IS)
- Industrial Injuries Disablement Benefit (IIDB)
- Jobseeker’s Allowance (JSA)
- Pension Credit (PC)
- Personal Independence Payment (PIP)
- Severe Disablement Allowance (SDA)
- State Pension (SP)
- Universal Credit (UC)
- Widow’s Benefit (WB)
We also publish Official Statistics on Maternity Allowance (MA) on a quarterly basis via data tables. These statistics are currently suspended, please see the MA collection page for more information.
We have previously published Accredited Official Statistics and Official Statistics on the following benefit breakdowns twice a year in May and November via data tables within this collection:
- State Pension 5% sample
These data tables were suspended from August 2021 due to the source data not being representative following the introduction of a new DWP computer system.
Similar benefit statistics for Northern Ireland are available.
Latest release
Consultation
The DWP public consultation on plans to change the scheduling and alignment and reduce the frequency of some of our routine administrative-based benefit Official Statistics has now closed and we have now considered all responses. You can view full details of the outcome of the consultation here: DWP administrative-based benefit statistics: proposed changes to scheduling and frequency of releases
Employment Support Allowance and Jobseekers Allowance Ethnicity Data
Collection of ethnicity data for working age claimants outside of UC (new style ESA and JSA) was suspended in September 2025 until a new platform is delivered to receive New Style claims and collect the required claimant data. As a result ethnicity measures of the JSA and ESA caseload published within these statistics are suspended from the November 2025 release of these statistics onward, until the new collection is underway and completion of the ethnicity field in the JSA and ESA caseloads has passed the minimum 70% threshold. This means that JSA and ESA data to February 2025 (released in August 2025) is the latest available time point where ethnicity breakdowns are available on Stat-Xplore.
State Pension Undercount
To ensure accurate reporting, a temporary methodological solution has been applied to the data for May 2025 onwards to fully capture all State Pension cases, including those migrated to the Get Your State Pension (GYSP) service from the legacy platform. This means the statistics for May 2025 onward reflect the complete caseload, with no undercount.
Quarterly State Pension statistics for November 2024 and February 2025 contain a known undercount. During this period, approximately 5,000 to 6,000 cases (less than 0.05% of the total caseload) were migrated from the Pension Strategy Computer System (PSCS) to GYSP. However, due to the way GYSP data is compiled, these migrated cases were not yet visible in standard datastores and therefore were not included in the statistics.
While statistics for November 2024 and February 2025 remain unchanged, the temporary solution ensures that migrated cases are now included from May 2025 onwards. A permanent fix is in development to allow future statistics to capture all migrated cases without relying on tactical adjustments.
Scottish devolution: changes to the presentation of DWP statistics
The devolution of social security benefits to the Scottish Government is now impacting DWP statistics.
Please refer to our background information note for more information on presentational changes we have made to our statistics in response to Scottish devolution.
Scottish Carers Allowance/Carers Support Payment Transition and Scottish Attendance Allowance/Pension Age Disability Payment
Carer’s Allowance (CA) is being replaced in Scotland by Carer’s Support Payment (CSP). DWP will continue to administer CA to existing claimants in Scotland over the transitional period. Transfers of existing CA recipients to CSP began in February 2024 and CSP became fully available across Scotland for new claims in November 2024.
Similarly, Attendance Allowance (AA) is being replaced in Scotland by Pension Age Disability Payment (PADP). DWP will continue to administer AA to existing claimants in Scotland over the transitional period. Transfers of existing AA recipients to PADP began in March 2025 and PADP became fully available across Scotland for new claims in April 2025.
From November 2024 data onwards, Scottish cases of CA have decreased notably, with this trend expected to continue whilst transfers are ongoing. Similarly, from August 2025 data onwards, Scottish cases of AA have decreased. The Scottish government announced in December 2025 that this transfer process for both benefits has been completed.
DWP will continue to include claimants living in Scotland in our statistics. However, as devolved benefits replace DWP benefits in the data, counts for Scotland no longer represent a full caseload. As such, if we were to continue to provide a total for Great Britain, this would no longer reflect the number of CA and AA claims in Great Britain, nor reflect impacts of devolution to the DWP’s delivery of benefits.
To reflect these changes, we have added a new split to CA and AA geography fields on Stat-Xplore to provide breakdowns based on policy ownership.
Jobseekers Allowance Methodology Improvement
DWP Statisticians have identified that a subset of inactive Jobseekers Allowance claims have been contributing to the caseload. A methodological improvement has been applied for August 2025 data onwards which will remove these inactive cases. As such, users can expect to see a decrease primarily in the Nil and Unknown payment counts. For example, in August 2025, there was a caseload reduction of 13,000 (16.4%) attributable to the change in methodology.
Further information
Read our background information note for more details about changes and revisions to the release.
Email benefits.statistics@dwp.gov.uk if you have any comments or questions about the information above.
Find contact information and more about DWP statistics on the Statistics at DWP page. Find future benefits statistics publication dates in our statistics release calendar.
Background information and guidance
We’ve published our policies and procedures for DWP statistics in the interests of transparency and to comply with the UK Statistics Authority code of practice.
We’ve also published specific policies and statements on DWP statistical summaries.
DWP benefit statistics tools
Stat-Xplore allows you to download and customise DWP statistics. For help with Stat-Xplore, see DWP benefit statistics tools.
Previous releases
Related publications
DWP publish historic and forecast benefit expenditure and caseload data which is usually consistent with the annual Budget and Autumn Statement.
Abstract of DWP benefit rate statistics
Employment and Support Allowance: outcomes of Work Capability Assessments
Housing Benefit: debt recoveries and fraud data