Official Statistics

Benefit sanctions statistics to July 2019 (experimental)

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

• From: Department for Work and Pensions
• Published: 12 November 2019
• Last updated: 18 June 2020
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  1. 18 June 2020

     Removed ‘adverse sanction decisions’ statistics for Universal Credit full service from the PDF publication and from Table 1.1 in the data tables. These have been removed because the methodology used to calculate these statistics was undercounting across the whole time-series. Updated statistics on UC full service adverse sanction decisions are available in the June 2020 release of benefit sanctions statistics, where the statistics have been calculated using an improved methodology.

  2. 27 February 2020

     Removed ‘all sanction decisions’ statistics for Universal Credit full service from the PDF publication and from Table 1.1 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.

  3. 19 December 2019

     Added note about corrected figures to table 4.1 'Individuals on Jobseeker's Allowance receiving repeat adverse sanction decisions in the last year'.

  4. 18 December 2019

     Updated table 4.1 'Individuals on JSA receiving repeat adverse sanction decisions in the last year' with corrected figures. This does not change the overall trends in the data.

  5. 6 December 2019

     Revised benefit sanctions data to July 2019. Note added to Table 4.1 to advise that DWP statisticians have identified a small shortfall in the number of individuals with a repeat sanction from August 2018 – July 2019. While this will not change the overall trends in the data, work to correct the issue and produce the correct figures has commenced and the information is expected to be revised by Wednesday 18 December 2019.

  6. 12 November 2019

     First published.

Documents

Benefit sanctions statistics to July 2019

Ref: ISBN 978-1-78659-132-6

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Data tables: benefit sanctions statistics to July 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 Work-Related Activity Group

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 document.

Next release of these statistics: 18 February 2020