Income-related benefits: estimates of take-up

Estimates of the take-up of the main income-related benefits by caseload and expenditure in Great Britain.

These statistics provide estimates of take-up, by caseload and expenditure, of the following income-related benefits:

Income Support
income-related Employment and Support Allowance
Pension Credit
Housing Benefit (including Local Housing Allowance)
Council Tax Benefit (to financial year 2009/10) – discontinued – last published in February 2012
income-based Jobseeker’s Allowance

They also provide the total and average amounts of benefit claimed and unclaimed for each these benefits.

Find contact information and more about DWP statistics on the Statistics at DWP page.

Find future release dates in our Statistics release calendar

Find archived statistical releases on The National Archives website

Document information

Published: 18 June 2013

Updated: 28 June 2016

28 June 2016 Added latest stats for Income-related benefits: estimates of take-up for financial year 2014/15.
25 June 2015 Added latest stats for Income-related benefits: estimates of take-up for financial year 2013/14.
2 February 2015 Amended the date of the next release which is now provisionally due to be published in May or June 2015. This has been changed to allow time to quality assure changes to methodology (the methods used to produce the statistics).
13 August 2014 Published details of next scheduled release for these statistics (January to February 2015).
18 June 2013 First published.