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  • Work Capability Assessment reform: estimated number of claimants affected

    This publication provides statistics on the estimated number of claimants affected by each of the Work Capability Assessment reform changes announced at Autumn Statement 2023.

    • Document type: Research
    • Part of a collection: DWP management information and ad hoc analyses
    • Organisation: Department for Work and Pensions
    • Updated:
  • Personal Independence Payment statistics release strategy

    How the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) manages the release of Personal Independence Payment (PIP) statistics.

    • Document type: Official Statistics
    • Part of a collection: Personal Independence Payment statistics
    • Organisation: Department for Work and Pensions
    • Updated:
  • SSAC Occasional Paper 26: The future of working age contributory benefits for those not in paid work

    This report assesses the future of working age contributory benefits for those not in paid work.

    • Document type: Independent report
    • Part of a collection: Occasional papers: SSAC
    • Organisation: Social Security Advisory Committee
    • Updated:
  • Northern Ireland Universal Credit Statistics: August 2022

    Provides experimental statistics on households and individuals on Universal Credit in Northern Ireland.

    • Document type: Official Statistics
    • Organisation: Department for Communities (Northern Ireland) and 1 others
    • Updated:
  • Out of work disability benefit reform

    This briefing note sets out conclusions and recommendations for out of work benefit reform.

    • Document type: Independent report
    • Organisation: Social Security Advisory Committee
    • Updated:
  • Personal well-being in the UK, quarterly: April 2011 to June 2021

    Quarterly estimates of life satisfaction, feeling that the things done in life are worthwhile, happiness and anxiety at the UK level, created using the Annual Population Survey (APS).

    • Document type: Official Statistics
    • Organisation: Office for National Statistics
    • Updated:
  • Personal well-being in the UK: April 2020 to March 2021

    Estimates of life satisfaction, feeling that the things done in life are worthwhile, happiness and anxiety at the UK, country, regional, county and local authority level.

    • Document type: National Statistics
    • Organisation: Office for National Statistics
    • Updated:
  • SSAC Occasional Paper 24: A review of the COVID-19 temporary measures

    A study by the Social Security Advisory Committee: Occasional Paper No. 24

    • Document type: Independent report
    • Part of a collection: Occasional papers: SSAC
    • Organisation: Department for Work and Pensions and 1 others
    • Updated:
  • Consent in Universal Credit

    A statement by the Social Security Advisory Committee (SSAC) on the outcome of a joint action point from DWP's response to SSAC's managed migration report.

    • Document type: Independent report
    • Organisation: Department for Work and Pensions and 1 others
    • Updated:
  • ESA underpayments: progress on checking, January 2020

    Update of progress on checking cases potentially affected by underpayments of Employment and Support Allowance (ESA) on conversion from other incapacity benefits.

    • Document type: Official Statistics
    • Part of a collection: ESA underpayments: progress on checking
    • Organisation: Department for Work and Pensions
    • Updated:
  • Benefit sanctions statistics to July 2019 (experimental)

    Sanctions statistics for Jobseeker’s Allowance, Employment and Support Allowance and Universal Credit, data to July 2019.

    • Document type: Official Statistics
    • Part of a collection: Benefit sanctions statistics
    • Organisation: Department for Work and Pensions
    • Updated:
  • ESA: outcomes of Work Capability Assessments including mandatory reconsiderations and appeals: June 2020

    Outcomes of Employment and Support Allowance (ESA) Work Capability Assessments, including mandatory reconsiderations and appeals information.

    • Document type: National Statistics
    • Part of a collection: Employment and Support Allowance: outcomes of Work Capability Assessments
    • Organisation: Department for Work and Pensions
    • Updated:
  • Personal Independence Payment: April 2013 to January 2020

    Quarterly statistics including numbers of claims in payment, new claim registrations, decisions and awards made.

    • Document type: Official Statistics
    • Part of a collection: Personal Independence Payment statistics
    • Organisation: Department for Work and Pensions
    • Updated:
  • Benefit sanctions statistics to January 2019

    Sanctions statistics for Jobseeker’s Allowance, Employment and Support Allowance and Universal Credit, data to January 2019.

    • Document type: Official Statistics
    • Part of a collection: Benefit sanctions statistics
    • Organisation: Department for Work and Pensions
    • Updated:
  • PIP administrative exercise: progress on cases cleared, at 5 January 2020

    DWP management information about an ongoing administrative exercise looking at Personal Independence Payment (PIP) claims following 2 Upper Tribunal decisions.

    • Document type: Research
    • Part of a collection: PIP administrative exercise: progress on cases cleared and 2 others
    • Organisation: Department for Work and Pensions
    • Updated:
  • Benefit Cap Report Northern Ireland - October 2019

    The Benefit Cap is a limit on the total amount of benefit that working-age people can receive. From 31 May 2016, the amount a household could receive in benefit income was limited to £26,000 per annum. On 7 November 2016, th…

    • Document type: Official Statistics
    • Organisation: Department for Communities (Northern Ireland) and 1 others
    • Updated:
  • ESA: outcomes of Work Capability Assessments including mandatory reconsiderations and appeals: December 2019

    Outcomes of Employment and Support Allowance (ESA) Work Capability Assessments, including mandatory reconsiderations and appeals information.

    • Document type: National Statistics
    • Part of a collection: Employment and Support Allowance: outcomes of Work Capability Assessments
    • Organisation: Department for Work and Pensions
    • Updated:
  • Universal Credit: 29 April 2013 to 10 October 2019

    Official experimental statistics including the number of people and households on Universal Credit, starts and claims.

    • Document type: Official Statistics
    • Part of a collection: Universal Credit statistics
    • Organisation: Department for Work and Pensions
    • Updated:
  • Benefit Cap Report Northern Ireland - July 2019

    The Benefit Cap is a limit on the total amount of benefit that working-age people can receive. From 31 May 2016, the amount a household could receive in benefit income was limited to £26,000 per annum. On 7 November 2016, th…

    • Document type: Official Statistics
    • Organisation: Department for Communities (Northern Ireland) and 1 others
    • Updated:
  • ESA underpayments: progress on checking, October 2019

    Update of progress on checking cases potentially affected by underpayments of Employment and Support Allowance (ESA) on conversion from other incapacity benefits.

    • Document type: Official Statistics
    • Part of a collection: ESA underpayments: progress on checking
    • Organisation: Department for Work and Pensions
    • Updated: