Official Statistics

Alternative Claimant Count statistics January 2013 to August 2022

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

• From: Department for Work and Pensions
• Published: 11 October 2022

Applies to England, Scotland and Wales

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Alternative Claimant Count statistics January 2013 to August 2022

Ref: ISBN 978-1-78659-383-2

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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.

Final release

This is the final release of this series. The Alternative Claimant Count (ACC) statistics have always been presented as an interim series to complement the ONS Claimant Count. Four years after they were first published and now that the majority of unemployment-related benefit claimants (89%) have migrated to Universal Credit or new-style Jobseeker’s Allowance, the series now has marginal value as trends have converged to the ONS Claimant Count. The ONS Claimant Count, released monthly, provides a timelier and more frequent series (available at: Nomisweb.co.uk). The historic ACC statistics will continue to be available on the GOV.UK website in the collection of ACC statistics.

Published 11 October 2022