Official Statistics

Benefit sanctions statistics to October 2018

Sanctions statistics for Jobseeker’s Allowance, Employment and Support Allowance and Universal Credit, data to October 2018.

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Benefit sanctions statistics to October 2018

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Data tables: benefit sanctions statistics to October 2018

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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.

Published 19 February 2019
Last updated 14 May 2019 + show all updates
  1. Updated table 3.4 of the data tables, this corrects the number of female UC claimants with a decision not to apply a sanction at higher decision level. Also updated table 4.3 of the data tables. Figures published in this table now show adverse IS decisions only, originally all IS decisions were published.

  2. First published.