To request information on flows off New Style JSA and ESA by cohort
Updated 23 July 2025
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Date received: 17 July 2025
Date of response: 21 July 2025
1. Information request
I’d like to make a FOI request on flows off New Style JSA and ESA by cohort, corresponding to the following chart for PIP in the Health and Disability Green Paper Evidence Pack:
Specifically, I would like to know, for people who started claiming NS JSA (month 0), the number of people still claiming after 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 months; and the same for 1, 2, 3,…12 months for NS ESA. I would like numbers of people at each point rather than proportions, if possible, so that I can flexibly aggregate across cohorts. I’d like this information for all available cohorts from 2013, where cohort is defined as the year in which the claim started.
If possible I would like to have this in CSV or Excel format.
2. Response
We do not hold the information you have requested. The Social Security Advisory Committee is a statutory independent non-departmental public body sponsored by the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP).
You may wish to redirect your request to DWP via the following email address: freedom-of-information-request@dwp.gov.uk.