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

  • 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.

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

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

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

  • 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).

  • 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.

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

  • 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

  • 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…

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

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

  • 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…

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