Child and Working Tax Credits statistics: 2005 to 2025
These statistics focus on the number of families benefiting from tax credits in England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland from tax year ending 2005 to 2025.
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These statistics focus on the number of families benefiting from tax credits in England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland from tax year ending 2005 to tax year ending 2025. The statistics present a breakdown of families by their profile position, age and gender, type of family and family size, including the families benefitting from different elements of tax credits. The statistics also cover the number of children in benefitting families broken down by their age. The geographical statistics are broken down into Country and Region, Local Authority, Lower Super Output Area, Westminster Parliamentary Constituency and Scottish Parliamentary Constituency.
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The number of families with the severely disabled child element has been added to Table 1. The number of families benefitting from the disabled child element in Table 1 has been changed so that tax years ending 2005 to 2015 also now include out-of-work families in receipt of CTC only. The titles to tables 6.1, 6.2, 7.1, and 7.2 have been amended to specify that the tables are only for in-work families. The tidy data has also been updated to reflect the inclusion of out-of-work families in the counts for families with disabled and severely disabled children. Additionally, four Local Authorities (LAs) in tax year ending 2024 and 2025 were cast into ‘foreign and not known’ when they should have been assigned an LA. This was due to boundary changes in tax year ending 2023 not being reflected in the geography lookup file. These have now been fixed with the correct LA name. The LAs affected were E06000063 (Cumberland), E06000064 (Westmorland and Furness), E06000065 (North Yorkshire), and E06000066 (Somerset). This error affected breakdowns at LA level only, with totals at other breakdown levels (e.g regional, main) unaffected. These changes affect the 'Tax credits awards geography from 2020' file only.
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