Child and Working Tax Credits statistics: Provisional Awards December 2021
These statistics are a snapshot of the overall caseload of people receiving Working Tax Credits and/or Child Tax Credits, supplemented with geographical breakdowns.
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These statistics focus on the number of families benefiting from Child Tax Credit (CTC) and/or Working Tax Credit (WTC) in England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland as at 1 December 2021. This publication presents a breakdown of families by their profile position, age and gender, type of family and family size as well as the number of children in benefiting families, broken down by age. It also includes statistics on families benefiting from each of the different elements of tax credits and provides information on the income used in calculating awards and the frequency of payments. For the first time, the commentary accompanying the statistics includes an estimate of the number of tax credits recipients who have migrated to Universal Credit (UC) since January 2019.
Last updated 2 February 2023 + show all updates
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We have today republished “Child and Working Tax Credits statistics: Provisional Awards - December 2021” after a small error came to light during the production of the latest release which was published today. Details of the error are found in the 'Data Revisions' section of the Quality Report which can be found on the same page as the statistics. Other releases in this series were unaffected by the error.
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