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Benefit destinations of claimants receiving a benefit sanction: methodology

An explanation of the methodology used in the benefit destinations of claimants who have been sanctioned statistics.

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From:
Department for Work and Pensions
Published:
15 November 2017
Last updated:
14 May 2024
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  1. The section on the Status of the statistics has been updated. The Quality Statement has also been updated. The latest release of sanctions statistics has been published today (14 May 2024).

  2. The document has been updated to show that the sanctions statistics are now classed as 'official statistics in development'. The latest release of sanctions statistics has been published today (14 November 2023).

  3. Added information to the sections on 'estimating the time spent on benefits or earning' and 'limitations of the statistics'. The latest release of sanctions statistics has been published today, 23 February 2020.

  4. Published revised version, now dated May 2019. This has been updated to support the latest release of sanctions statistics (these have data to January 2019).

  5. Published a revised version of 'Benefit destinations of claimants receiving a benefit sanction: explanation of methodology'. The new version is dated November 2018 and has been updated to support the latest release of sanctions statistics (with data to July 2018).

  6. Published a revised version of 'Benefit destinations of claimants receiving a benefit sanction: explanation of methodology'. The new version is dated February 2018 and has been updated to support the latest release of sanctions statistics.

  7. First published.

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The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) releases statistics on the benefit destinations of sanctioned claimants as part of its benefit sanctions statistics.

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