Official Statistics

Mortality statistics: ESA, IB and SDA claimants

Statistics on people who died after claiming Employment and Support Allowance, Incapacity Benefit or Severe Disablement Allowance.

Applies to England, Scotland and Wales

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Mortality statistics: Employment and Support Allowance, Incapacity Benefit or Severe Disablement Allowance

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This publication supplies data in response to a number of Freedom of Information requests.

We have also published more detailed statistics on mortality rates for out-of-work working age benefit claimants.

Published 27 August 2015
Last updated 8 September 2015 + show all updates
  1. Corrected first line of table 2.6 on page 8. "Total number of ESA off-flows with date of of death at same time" changed to "Total number of IB/SDA off-flows with date of of death at same time".

  2. First published.