Official Statistics

Benefit sanctions statistics to October 2019 (experimental)

Statistics on the number of sanctions imposed on people who receive JSA, ESA (WRAG), IS or Universal Credit.

• From: Department for Work and Pensions
• Published: 18 February 2020
• 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 HTML publication and from Tables 1.1, 1.2 and 4.1 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. 18 February 2020

     First published.

Documents

Benefit sanctions statistics to October 2019 (experimental)

Ref: ISBN 978-1-78659-188-3

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Data tables: benefit sanctions statistics to October 2019 (experimental)

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Details

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

This quarterly publication provides sanctions statistics on:

• Jobseeker’s Allowance (JSA)
• Employment and Support Allowance (ESA) Work Related Activity Group (WRAG)
• Income Support (IS)
• Universal Credit (UC)