Official Statistics

Income-related benefits: estimates of take-up: financial year ending 2025

Estimates of take-up of income-related benefits for Great Britain for the financial year ending 2025.

• From: Department for Work and Pensions
• Published: 22 October 2026
• Last updated: 28 October 2026
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  1. 28 October 2026

     Added the working age benefits included in the new composite measure Universal Credit to page details. Updated the link 'FRS background information and methodology' in section '8.2 Use of survey data'. Updated all 3 spreadsheets to address feedback about errors appearing when using the 'Name Manager' function.

  2. 22 October 2026

     First published.

Applies to England, Scotland and Wales

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Income-related benefits: estimates of take-up: financial year ending 2025

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UC (or equivalent benefits): tables financial year ending 2025

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Quick guide to published tables and results for financial year ending 2025

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Background information and methodology for financial year ending 2025

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This report looks at estimates of take-up for income-related benefits.

The Income-related benefits: estimates of take-up report provides estimates of take-up for income-related benefits.

This includes the following pension age income-related benefits:

• Pension Credit (PC)
• Housing Benefit (HB) for pensioners

The working age benefits included in the new composite measure Universal Credit (or equivalent benefits) are:

• Universal Credit (UC)
• Income-based Jobseeker’s Allowance (JSA (IB))
• Income-related Employment and Support Allowance (ESA (IR))
• Income Support (IS)
• Working Tax Credit (WTC)
• Child Tax Credit (CTC)
• Housing Benefit (HB) for working age claimants

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