DWP benefits statistics: February 2019
Statistics on DWP administered benefits.
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Data is released quarterly through:
- Stat-Xplore
- Nomis
- data tables
The statistical summary document is published on a 6 monthly basis in February and August each year. It contains a high level summary of the latest National Statistics on Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) benefits.
Statistics on Income Support (IS) are now available on Stat-Xplore including improvements to the geography information. Figures from February 2013 are currently available, but the timeseries will be extended back to August 1999 over the coming Spring. Read our DWP statistical geographies note for more information about the improvements.
As part of a routine update, we have refreshed the reference file used to assign geographies to our statistics in Stat-Xplore. For most geographical outputs, this change has had no impact. However, for some Scottish Parliamentary Constituencies, the figures for May 2018 on Stat-Xplore have been revised slightly. Approximately 1% of all cases were found to be assigned to an incorrect Scottish Parliamentary Constituency.
We have made a methodological improvement to how we create statistics for new State Pension (nSP). The change from data at August 2018 will be reflected in the number of cases with a Protected Payment status, and account for an increase of approximately 3% in these types of cases.
Find further information about the statistics, including details on changes and revisions, in the background and methodology documents.
Updates to this page
Published 19 February 2019Last updated 22 February 2019 + show all updates
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Income Support data is available again through Stat-Xplore.
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Added note to say that Income Support data is currently unavailable on Stat-Xplore.
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