Official Statistics

Alternative Claimant Count statistics January 2013 to August 2021

Official experimental statistics on the number of people claiming unemployment related benefits and estimates of the proportion in-work.

Applies to England, Scotland and Wales

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Alternative Claimant Count statistics, January 2013 to August 2021

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Find the latest release of these statistics in the collection of Alternative Claimant Count statistics.

These Alternative Claimant Count statistics measure the number of people claiming unemployment related benefits by modelling what the count would have been if Universal Credit had been in place since 2013.

Lead Statistician: Steve Watkins

Published 12 October 2021