Official Statistics

Unfulfilled eligibility in the benefit system: Financial Year Ending (FYE) 2026

Published 14 May 2026

Applies to England, Scotland and Wales

1. Introduction

The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) pays welfare benefits to around 24.3 million people. To get welfare benefits people need to meet certain eligibility criteria and the amount of money they receive depends on their circumstances. Sometimes people tell us the wrong information or do not tell us when their circumstances change. Reporting accurate information and providing evidence may change the amount of benefit people are eligible for and in some circumstances, they may be eligible for more money. However, we cannot calculate the correct amount unless people tell us accurately about their circumstances. This means that people are not eligible for increases in the amount of money they receive until we have the correct information. This publication estimates how much extra money benefit claimants could be getting if they told us accurately about their circumstances. These people are already getting some money on a certain benefit but may not be getting all the money they could be eligible for on this benefit – we call this Unfulfilled Eligibility.

This publication does not cover take-up of benefits, which is where people could have claimed certain benefits based on their current circumstances but have not done so. ‘Income-related benefits: estimates of take-up’ is a separate publication about take-up of benefits.

These Unfulfilled Eligibility estimates are based on information that was previously included in the ‘Fraud and error in the benefit system’ statistics as Claimant Error underpayments. They were removed and reclassified and are now published separately here following a planned review of the fraud and error statistics that was referred to in its FYE 2023 publication. The purpose of this review was to align the statistics more closely with benefit legislation. The review determined that the estimates now included in this Unfulfilled Eligibility publication should not be defined as underpayments. In benefit legislation, people are not eligible for increases in the amount of money they get until they tell us all the correct information.

Estimates are only available from FYE 2024 onwards. Estimates of Unfulfilled Eligibility before FYE 2024 are not directly comparable to previous estimates of Claimant Error underpayments published in the fraud and error statistics. While the two calculation methodologies are very similar, there is one difference relating to the netting adjustment that has a minimal impact on the estimates. Further detail on the difference in methodology is available in the Background Information and Methodology note.

Unfulfilled Eligibility is calculated as a percentage of the total amount of benefit paid by the department – expenditure. These percentages are referred to as rates throughout this publication. The proportion of benefit claims with Unfulfilled Eligibility is also reported.

The rates found are then applied to the benefit expenditure for the Financial Year Ending (FYE) 2026 to estimate the monetary amount of Unfulfilled Eligibility. The benefit expenditure figures used are consistent with Spring Forecast 2026.

The data that underpins this publication is based on a sample of benefit payments that are checked for accuracy by a specialist team.

Estimates in this publication relate to benefit payments sampled between September 2024 and October 2025. See Appendix 1 for specific time periods relating to each reviewed benefit.

Analysis is undertaken to provide assurance that the sampling period is representative of the financial year. However, actions taken by the department within the financial year may not always be fully reflected within the statistics.

Next Edition: May 2027

2. What you need to know

About this publication

This publication contains estimates of the levels of Unfulfilled Eligibility in the benefit system. The measure is how much extra money benefit claimants could be receiving if they accurately reported their circumstances to the department expressed as the percentage of benefit expenditure, referred to as the Unfulfilled Eligibility rate. This is also expressed as a monetary value in pounds. We further report on the proportion of claims with Unfulfilled Eligibility.

DWP measures Unfulfilled Eligibility to understand the levels, trends and reasons behind it. This understanding supports decision making on what actions DWP can take to reduce the level of Unfulfilled Eligibility in the benefit system. The National Audit Office considers the amount of Unfulfilled Eligibility when they audit DWP’s accounts each year.

These estimates relate to the levels of Unfulfilled Eligibility in the benefit system in Great Britain. They are underpinned by reviews of benefit payment correctness in England, Wales and Scotland. The benefit expenditure figures used in this publication also include overseas residents who are receiving United Kingdom benefits, except Financial Assistance Scheme payments which also cover Northern Ireland. All other benefit expenditure on residents of Northern Ireland is the responsibility of the Northern Ireland Executive. The benefit expenditure figures do not include amounts devolved to the Scottish Government (which is forecasted to be £5.8 billion in FYE 2026). The monetary values for previous years are not adjusted for inflation.

Due to each benefit’s expenditure changing year on year, it is recommended that the rates are used when comparing levels of Unfulfilled Eligibility over time, rather than the monetary amounts.

Published tables and data

The figures in this publication are a selection from the reference tables. The tables contain further breakdowns of the estimates presented in this publication by different characteristics, with time series data going back to FYE 2024.

How Unfulfilled Eligibility is measured

The sample of payments that are selected are assessed to determine whether there is any Unfulfilled Eligibility, if this is the case, the amount of extra money the claimant could be claiming is calculated.

Reasons for Unfulfilled Eligibility

Any Unfulfilled Eligibility identified is classified further into reasons, which explains why Unfulfilled Eligibility occurred. Simplified descriptions of the reasons are given in this publication. A more detailed glossary of the reasons can be found in Appendix 3 of the Background Information and Methodology note. The reference tables contain a full breakdown by reason, for all benefits measured this year.

De Minimis reporting

When reporting on the proportion of claims with Unfulfilled Eligibility we separate out all the Unfulfilled Eligibility of 10p or less per week and report it separately to the headline measures within the publication. We call this “De Minimis” reporting. Section 5 of the Background Information and Methodology note provides further information.

Methodology changes and revisions

For information on revisions, methodology changes and their impact, please see section 2 of the Background Information and Methodology note.

Statistical significance and confidence intervals

Changes between years are noted as being statistically significant when the difference observed is likely to reflect a true change at the population level, rather than random variation between the samples. Any statistically significant changes between the years being compared are specified in this publication.

For more information on Statistical Significance and confidence intervals, please see: Uncertainty and how we measure it for our surveys - Office for National Statistics.

3. Changes in this year’s results

The estimates in this publication are based on a sample of benefit claims. As a result, year‑on‑year comparisons are subject to sampling variability. The changes highlighted in this section are those that are statistically significant - that is, where the sampled data provides clear evidence of a genuine rise or fall in the rate, rather than a change that could have occurred by chance.

This section highlights the statistically significant changes between FYE 2026 and FYE 2025 (DLA was last measured in FYE 2024 and all the statistically significant changes are relative to that year).

Section 4 gives more detailed narrative on the overall levels of Unfulfilled Eligibility, whereas section 5 onwards will then give a more detailed narrative around each benefit.

Overall level of Unfulfilled Eligibility across all benefits

There was no statistically significant change in the Unfulfilled Eligibility rate between FYE 2026 and FYE 2025.

Statistically significant changes at the benefit level

Universal Credit (UC)

Unfulfilled Eligibility that resulted from Income – Other (claimants who did not report decreases or overstated the amount of income that came into the household from other sources) saw an increase to 0.1% in FYE 2026 from 0.0% in FYE 2025.

State Pension

There were no statistically significant changes between FYE 2026 and FYE 2025.

Personal Independence Payment (PIP)

There were no statistically significant changes between FYE 2026 and FYE 2025.

Housing Benefit (HB)

The total HB Unfulfilled Eligibility rate fell to 1.0% (£130 million) in FYE 2026, from 1.2% (£180 million) in FYE 2025.

• The Earnings/Employment (where claimants have failed to inform the department about reductions in their earnings) rate reported a reduction to 0.2% in FYE 2026 from 0.3% in 2025. This change was driven by a reduction at the pension age level, which decreased to 0.0%, from 0.2% in FYE 2025.

• The total Employee Earnings Unfulfilled Eligibility rate reported a decrease to 0.1% in FYE 2026 from 0.3% in FYE 2025. This was driven by a reduction at a pension age level to 0.0% in FYE 2026 from 0.2% in FYE 2025.

• Total Capital (failing to inform the department of a reduction in financial assets) Unfulfilled Eligibility saw a decrease in FYE 2026, compared to FYE 2025, despite remaining at 0.0% when rounded. This change was driven by a reduction in pension age Capital Unfulfilled Eligibility, which also remained at 0.0% after rounding.

• At a pension age level, the Income – DWP Benefits (claimants failing to report changes or new claims to other DWP benefits) Unfulfilled Eligibility rate reported a decrease to 0.1% in FYE 2026, down from 0.2% FYE 2025.

Disability Living Allowance (DLA)

DLA was last measured in FYE 2024 – all statistically significant changes mentioned in this section are relative to FYE 2024.

The total DLA Unfulfilled Eligibility rate was 8.5% (£710 million) in FYE 2026. This was a decrease from 11.1% (£750 million) in FYE 2024.  This decrease was entirely driven by Functional Needs (where claimants needed more help or their condition had deteriorated).

The number of DLA claims with Unfulfilled Eligibility reported a decrease to 20 in every 100 claims in FYE 2026, a fall from 25 in every 100 in FYE 2024.

Pension Credit (PC)

The proportion of PC claims with Unfulfilled Eligibility was 13 in 100 claims in FYE 2026, an increase compared with 10 in 100 claims in FYE 2025.

The largest source of PC Unfulfilled Eligibility in FYE 2026 was Income – DWP Benefits (where the claimant fails to inform DWP that they started receiving a qualifying benefit, or that someone no longer receives Carers Allowance, Carers Support Payment or Universal Credit Carer Element for their care). This saw an increase to 0.9% in FYE 2026 from 0.2% in FYE 2025.

There was a reduction in the PC Earnings/Employment (where claimants have failed to inform the department about reductions in their earnings) Unfulfilled Eligibility rate to 0.0% in FYE 2026 from 0.1% in FYE 2025.

Income - Other (claimants who did not report decreases or overstated the amount of income that came into the household from other sources) saw an increase compared to last year; however, both FYE 2026 and FYE 2025 Unfulfilled Eligibility rates rounded to 0.0%.

4. Estimates of Unfulfilled Eligibility across all benefits

The total rate of Unfulfilled Eligibility in FYE 2026 was 1.2% (£3.7 billion), compared with 1.3% (£3.7 billion) in FYE 2025. This change was not statistically significant.

In FYE 2026, Disability Living Allowance (DLA), Personal Independence Payment (PIP), and Universal Credit (UC) accounted for 79.7% of the total value of Unfulfilled Eligibility, this was broadly similar to last year.

Table 1: FYE 2026 Unfulfilled Eligibility values, rates, and benefit expenditure by benefit, for UC, PIP and DLA and total.

	Unfulfilled Eligibility Value (£million)	Unfulfilled Eligibility Rate (%)	Expenditure (£million)
Total	3,700	1.2	308,600
Universal Credit	1,290	1.6	79,200
Personal Independence Payment	950	3.3	28,500
Disability Living Allowance	710	8.5	8,300

5. Universal Credit Unfulfilled Eligibility

Universal Credit (UC) is a payment to help with living costs for people who are in work on a low income, or for those who are out of work. Eligibility for UC depends on individual circumstances and the claimant residing in Great Britain.

The expenditure on UC increased to £79.2 billion in FYE 2026 from £65.3 billion in FYE 2025. This means that the monetary values of Unfulfilled Eligibility cannot be directly compared between these years.

For Universal Credit, the Unfulfilled Eligibility rate was measured at 1.6% (£1,290 million) in FYE 2026, compared to 1.5% (£970 million) in FYE 2025.

Around 10 in every 100 Universal Credit claims had Unfulfilled Eligibility in FYE 2026, broadly similar to FYE 2025.

Claimants failing to report increases in Housing Costs (their rent amount or those who were eligible for housing costs not receiving them) and Income – DWP Benefits (claimants failing to report changes or new claims to other DWP benefits) remained the two main sources of Unfulfilled Eligibility and accounted for over £5 in every £10 of Unfulfilled Eligibility on UC in FYE 2026, broadly similar to FYE 2025.

Unfulfilled Eligibility due to Income – Other (claimants failing to report decreases or overstating the amount of income coming into the household from other sources) increased to 0.1% in FYE 2026 from 0.0% in FYE 2025. This increase was statistically significant, following a statistically significant fall in the previous year. Most of this Unfulfilled Eligibility was driven by a small number of claimants failing to report decreases or overstating the amount of income coming into the household from spousal maintenance or Child Benefit or failing to declare receipt of Child Disability payment.

6. State Pension Unfulfilled Eligibility

State Pension (SP) is paid to people who have reached the minimum age to claim (currently at 66 years old, increasing gradually over the next two years until it reaches 67 years old) and have enough qualifying years on their National Insurance record.

The expenditure increased to £146.1 billion in FYE 2026 from £136.4 billion in FYE 2025 (revised from the FYE 2025 release). This means that the monetary values of Unfulfilled Eligibility cannot be directly compared between these years. SP is the benefit with the highest expenditure and accounts for almost half of total benefit expenditure.

For State Pension, the Unfulfilled Eligibility rate remained at 0.0% (£50 million) in FYE 2026, the same as FYE 2025 (£30 million).

The proportion of claims with Unfulfilled Eligibility remained at 0 in 100 claims in FYE 2026.

The majority of Unfulfilled Eligibility fell within the Other category and was driven by claimants failing to report changes relating to marital status.

7. Personal Independence Payment Unfulfilled Eligibility

Personal Independence Payment (PIP) helps with extra costs caused by long-term disability or ill-health. From April 2013, PIP started to replace Disability Living Allowance for people of working age.

The expenditure increased to £28.5 billion in FYE 2026 from £25.8 billion in FYE 2025. This means that the monetary values of Unfulfilled Eligibility cannot be directly compared between these years.

For Personal Independence Payment, the Unfulfilled Eligibility rate in FYE 2026 was 3.3% (£950 million), compared with 4.1% (£1,060 million) in FYE 2025.

Around 10 in every 100 Personal Independence Payment claims had Unfulfilled Eligibility in FYE 2026, broadly similar to FYE 2025.

In line with previous trends, all Unfulfilled Eligibility was due to Functional Needs (where claimants have not informed the department they needed more help, or their condition had deteriorated).

8. Housing Benefit Unfulfilled Eligibility

Housing Benefit (HB) can help pay rent for many groups of people. These include those who are on a low income, claiming benefits, or unemployed. How much they get depends on their income and circumstances. For working aged people, HB is being replaced by Universal Credit (UC). This group will gradually move onto UC. Working aged people cannot make new claims for HB. They can only do so if they are in supported, sheltered, or temporary housing. pension age people can continue to make new claims for HB. 

The expenditure was £12.9 billion in FYE 2026 compared to £15.4 billion in FYE 2025. This means that the monetary values of Unfulfilled Eligibility cannot be directly compared between these years.

These estimates relate to HB as a whole. Separate estimates are also published for working age and pension age claimants (see reference tables). These two groups consist of “passported” and “non-passported” claims. Passported claims receive HB when also receiving a qualifying income-related benefit. The other group is “non-passported”. They get HB without one of these qualifying benefits. This means that HB contains four groups. These are passported and non-passported working age, as well as passported and non-passported pension age. Table 2 below shows how the proportion of HB client groups contributes to the total HB expenditure.

Table 2: Housing Benefit expenditure split by client group, in monetary value and as a proportion of total HB expenditure, for FYE 2026 and FYE 2025.

	FYE 2026 expenditure (£million)	FYE 2026 expenditure proportion (%)	FYE 2025 expenditure (£million)	FYE 2025 expenditure proportion (%)
Housing Benefit	12,900	100	15,400	100
Pension age (total)	7,100	55	6,800	44
Working age (total)	5,800	45	8,500	56
Pension age (Passported)	4,700	37	4,400	29
Working age (Passported)	4,700	36	6,700	44
Pension age (Non-passported)	2,400	19	2,400	16
Working age (Non-passported)	1,100	9	1,800	12

In FYE 2026, DWP reviewed pension age claims – this is made up of non-passported pension age and passported pension age client groups. The estimates for the other groups relate to reviews undertaken in previous years. The rates of Unfulfilled Eligibility found when each group was last measured have been applied to the FYE 2026 expenditure.

For Housing Benefit, Unfulfilled Eligibility saw a statistically significant fall to 1.0% (£130 million) in FYE 2026, from 1.2% (£180 million) in FYE 2025. This decrease was driven by a statistically significant reduction in non-passported pension age Unfulfilled Eligibility, which fell to 1.4% in FYE 2026, from 1.8% in FYE 2025.

Changes in the total HB Unfulfilled Eligibility rate were driven by:

• statistically significant decreases in total Earnings/Employment (where claimants have failed to inform the department about reductions in their earnings), which decreased to 0.2% in FYE 2026 from 0.3% in FYE 2025

• a statistically significant decrease in Employee Earnings (where claimants failed to inform the department about reductions to Employee Earnings) measuring 0.1% in FYE 2026, from 0.3% in FYE 2025

• statistically significant decreases at a pension age level with Earnings/Employment and Employee Earnings now rounding to 0.0% in FYE 2026

At Pension Level, Income – DWP Benefits (claimants failing to report changes or new claims to other DWP benefits) saw a statistically significant reduction to 0.1% in FYE 2026, from 0.2% in FYE 2025.

For HB non-passported pension age claimants, Unfulfilled Eligibility due to Income – DWP benefits measured 0.2% in FYE 2026, following a statistically significant fall from 0.4% in FYE 2025. While the rate was previously higher than for other client groups, it is now broadly in line with the levels observed across those groups.

Housing Costs (where claimants fail to report an increase in rent) remained the largest cause of Unfulfilled Eligibility for total Housing Benefit, measuring 0.5% in FYE 2026.

Housing Costs remains the largest category across all client groups, measuring between 0.2% and 0.7%.

Around 10 in every 100 Housing Benefit claims had Unfulfilled Eligibility in FYE 2026, broadly similar to FYE 2025. The overall reduction in the Unfulfilled Eligibility rate is therefore due to a lower average amount per claim, rather than fewer affected claims.

9. Disability Living Allowance Unfulfilled Eligibility

Disability Living Allowance (DLA) helps with extra costs associated with long term disability or ill-health. From April 2013, Personal Independence Payment (PIP) started to replace DLA. Adults are still in receipt of DLA, however new claims can only be made for children under 16.

These estimates relate to all of DLA. DLA is made up of two main client groups (children under 16 and adults aged 65 or over) and a third small client group (working age adults). In FYE 2024 both main client groups were measured. This year we have only measured the child client group, while the estimates for the adult group relate to reviews undertaken in FYE 2024 and have been applied to the FYE 2026 expenditure. Further information on how the overall DLA overpayment and underpayment figures are calculated can be found in the Background Information and Methodology note. 

Total expenditure increased to £8.3 billion in FYE 2026 from £6.8 billion in FYE 2024. This means that the monetary values of Unfulfilled Eligibility cannot be directly compared between these years.

The Disability Living Allowance Unfulfilled Eligibility rate was 8.5% (£710 million) in FYE 2026, which was a statistically significant decrease from 11.1% (£750 million) in FYE 2024.

All Unfulfilled Eligibility in FYE 2026 was due to Functional Needs (where claimants failed to inform the department that they needed more help or that their condition had deteriorated). Functional Needs was also the only category recorded in FYE 2024.

The number of claims with Unfulfilled Eligibility saw a statistically significant decrease to 20 in every 100 claims in FYE 2026, from 25 in every 100 in FYE 2024.

10. Pension Credit Unfulfilled Eligibility

Pension Credit (PC) provides support to people who have reached State Pension age (SPA) and reside in Great Britain. Guarantee Credit tops up any other income to a ‘standard minimum guarantee’ amount and additional amounts may be payable in certain circumstances, for example, for severe disability, for certain housing costs or for caring. Savings Credit is an extra payment for those who have made some additional provision for their retirement through, for example, an occupational pension or savings. Those reaching SPA from 6 April 2016 are not eligible for Savings Credit.

The expenditure on PC has increased to £6.1 billion in FYE 2026 from £5.9 billion in FYE 2025. This means that the monetary values of Unfulfilled Eligibility cannot be directly compared between these years.

The Pension Credit Unfulfilled Eligibility rate was 2.0% (£130 million) in FYE 2026, compared with 1.7% (£100 million) in FYE 2025.

The proportion of claims with Unfulfilled Eligibility was 13 in 100 claims in FYE 2026, compared with 10 in 100 claims in FYE 2025. This was a statistically significant increase.

Additional amounts of PC might be paid if a claimant meets certain conditions and accurately reports their circumstances to the department. These additional amounts are commonly referred to as premiums. One such premium is the Extra Amount for Severe Disability (EASD). To be entitled to EASD, the claimant must be in receipt of a qualifying benefit, living alone (or with a partner who is also in receipt of a qualifying benefit), and no one must be receiving Carer’s Allowance (CA), Carer Support Payment (CSP) or the Carer Element in Universal Credit (UC-CE) for providing care to the claimant. Once those criteria are satisfied, the claimant must inform the department of the relevant change in their circumstances before EASD can be awarded.

Claimants missing out on the award of EASD continues to be the main driver of Unfulfilled Eligibility on Pension Credit and accounted for £5 in every £10 of total Unfulfilled Eligibility on Pension Credit in FYE 2026, compared to £4 in every £10 in FYE 2025.

EASD-related Unfulfilled Eligibility falls into two categories, depending on which entitlement criteria is not reported.  Income – DWP Benefits (where the claimant fails to inform DWP that they started receiving a qualifying benefit, or that someone no longer receives CA, CSP or UC-CE for their care), or Household Composition (where the claimant fails to report changes to their household composition that would entitle them to EASD). EASD-related Unfulfilled Eligibility accounts for over £8 in every £10 of Unfulfilled Eligibility within those two categories.

The largest Unfulfilled Eligibility category in FYE 2026 was Income – DWP Benefits. This saw a statistically significant increase to 0.9% in FYE 2026 from 0.2% in FYE 2025.

The Capital category (failing to inform the department of a reduction in financial assets) was the second largest reason for Unfulfilled Eligibility, accounting for just under £2 in every £10 of Unfulfilled Eligibility in FYE 2026. Capital includes most savings and investments held in the claimant’s name, or jointly with their partner, although some types of capital can be disregarded when the award is calculated. If the claimant’s capital reduces, they may be entitled to a higher PC award, but only when they let the department know and their claim is reassessed.

The rate of Unfulfilled Eligibility due to Earnings/Employment (where claimants have failed to inform the department about reductions in their earnings) saw a statistically significant decrease to 0.0% in FYE 2026, from 0.1% in FYE 2025.

The rate of Unfulfilled Eligibility for the category Income – Other (claimants who did not report decreases or overstated the amount of income that came into the household from other sources) reported a statistically significant increase in FYE 2026 compared to FYE 2025; however, rates for both years rounded to 0.0%.

11. About these statistics

All the information underlying the tables and figures featured in this publication is included in the accompanying reference tables.

The tables show the rates and monetary values of Unfulfilled Eligibility for each benefit. More detail about the reason for Unfulfilled Eligibility (for example: income, savings and who lives in the household) is provided for benefits measured this year. The proportion of claims with Unfulfilled Eligibility is also estimated.

The Background Information and Methodology note provides further information on how the ‘Unfulfilled Eligibility in the benefit system’ statistics are calculated and gives a glossary of the reasons for Unfulfilled Eligibility used in this publication and the reference tables.

The release strategy provides further information on upcoming plans for future releases of these statistics.

Status of these statistics

Unfulfilled Eligibility statistics were first produced in FYE 2024 and were published as ‘official statistics in development’. For FYE 2026, DWP’s chief statistician reviewed the status of the statistics in line with the Code of Practice for Statistics and has concluded that they now meet the required standards for trustworthiness, quality and value as set in the code of practice for statisticians that all producers of statistics should adhere to. As a result, the “in development” label had been removed from this publication.

From May 2026, these statistics are classed as ‘official statistics’.

You are welcome to contact us directly with any comments about these statistics, or about how we meet the standards set out in the Code of Practice, by emailing the statistical production team at enquiries.fema@dwp.gov.uk. Alternatively, you can contact OSR by emailing regulation@statistics.gov.uk or through the OSR website.

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12. Contact information

Lead Statistician: Richard Stoneham

Feedback or enquiries about these statistics should be directed by email to:

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DWP Press Office: 0115 965 8781

Appendix 1: FYE 2026 Unfulfilled Eligibility rates and monetary values by benefit

	Expenditure (£million)	Unfulfilled Eligibility Rate (%)	Unfulfilled Eligibility Value (£million)	Last measured
Universal Credit	79,200	1.6	1,290	Nov 2024 to Oct 2025
State Pension	146,100	0.0	50	Nov 2024 to Oct 2025
Personal Independence Payment	28,500	3.3	950	Sep 2024 to Aug 2025
Housing Benefit	12,900	1.0	130	Nov 2024 to Oct 2025
Attendance Allowance	8,500	4.2	360	Oct 2020 to Aug 2021
Disability Living Allowance	8,300	8.5	710	Nov 2024 to Oct 2025
Employment and Support Allowance	7,000	1.4	100	Sep 2021 to Aug 2022
Pension Credit	6,100	2	130	Nov 2024 to Oct 2025
Carer’s Allowance	4,600	w	w	Mar 2024 to Sep 2024
Jobseeker’s Allowance	300	0.3	0	Oct 2017 to Sep 2018
Income Support	0	0.4	0	Oct 2013 to Sep 2014
Incapacity Benefit	0	0.0	0	Oct 2009 to Sep 2010
Never Reviewed	7,100	0.4	20	-
Total	308,600	1.2	3,700	-
Range		(1.1 to 1.3)	(3,400 to 4,000)	-

Notes to Appendix 1

1. Rows and columns may not sum to totals due to rounding.

2. Approximate 95% confidence interval ranges are given for the totals in the row below them. These also allow for non-sample error in occasionally reviewed benefits and the additional uncertainty that comes from the use of older measurement periods.

3. Monetary values associated with Income Support, Jobseeker’s Allowance and Incapacity Benefit are displayed as zeros due to rounding.

4. Some cells have no data, when this is the case shorthand is used to briefly describe the reason for the missing data, w = no data found in the sample.

5. The ‘Never Reviewed’ category includes benefits which were not previously reviewed and have not been historically reviewed in a particular year. See background information document - section 5. See Background Information and Methodology note - section 5.  

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