Official Statistics

Income-related benefits: estimates of take-up: financial year 2017 to 2018

Estimates of take-up of income-related benefits for Great Britain for the financial year 2017 to 2018.

• From: Department for Work and Pensions
• Published: 27 February 2020

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Income-related benefits: estimates of take-up in 2017 to 2018

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Pension Credit: tables 2017 to 2018

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Housing Benefit: tables 2017 to 2018

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Income Support and Employment and Support Allowance: tables 2017 to 2018

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Quick guide to published tables and results 2017 to 2018

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Background information and methodology 2017 to 2018

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Details

These statistics contain information on the take-up of the main income-related benefits in Great Britain for the financial year 2017 to 2018. These are:

• Pension Credit
• Housing Benefit
• Income Support
• income-related Employment and Support Allowance

Main data sources used

The main data sources used to produce estimates of take-up are:

• Family Resources Survey – used to model the population in private households entitled to income-related benefits

• DWP and local authority benefit records data – the basis of the Work and Pensions Longitudinal Study

• DWP statistical summaries – providing the counts of benefit recipients and typical amounts received

Published 27 February 2020