Official Statistics

Benefit sanctions statistics to January 2019

Sanctions statistics for Jobseeker’s Allowance, Employment and Support Allowance and Universal Credit, data to January 2019.

• From: Department for Work and Pensions
• Published: 14 May 2019
• Last updated: 27 February 2020
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  1. 27 February 2020

     Removed ‘all sanction decisions’ statistics for Universal Credit full service from the PDF publication and from Table 3.9 in the data tables. These have been removed because the published statistics were missing some data as a result of how the information is recorded.

  2. 18 December 2019

     Removed tables 1.7b 'JSA sanctions - new regime: individuals receiving repeat adverse sanction decisions in the last year' and 2.5a 'ESA sanctions - new regime: individuals receiving repeat adverse sanction decisions in the last year'. DWP statisticians identified an issue with the methodology used to produce the statistics for JSA and ESA repeat sanctions.

  3. 2 August 2019

     Revisions has been made to the graphs included in the PDF publication. The figures published remain the same, however there have been minor formatting changes made to the publication graphs.

  4. 26 July 2019

     Revised the figures in the Universal Credit Full Service ‘Summary of Original Adverse Decisions’ table in the statistical bulletin following corrections to the monthly figures used in the calculations. The differences between the original figures published and the revised figures are minimal.

  5. 19 June 2019

     Updated data tables with repeat sanctions data for Jobseeker’s Allowance (new table 1.7b) and Employment and Support Allowance (new table 2.5a).

  6. 14 May 2019

     First published.

Documents

Benefit sanctions statistics to January 2019

Ref: ISBN 978-1-78659-130-2

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Data tables: benefit sanctions statistics to January 2019

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Details

The latest release of these statistics can be found in the benefit sanctions statistics collection.

Quarterly official and experimental publication includes sanctions statistics for:

• Universal Credit (both full and live service)
• Jobseeker’s Allowance
• Employment and Support Allowance

Find further breakdowns of these statistics in Stat-Xplore, an online tool for exploring some of the Department for Work and Pensions’ main statistics. You can use Stat-Xplore to create your own customised tables and charts.

Find further information about the sanctions process, source of these statistics and the publication rounding policy in the background information and methodology documents.