Official Statistics
Income-related benefits: estimates of take-up: financial year 2015/16
Estimates of take-up of income-related benefits for Great Britain for the financial year 2015/16.
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Introduction
These statistics contain information on the take-up of the main income-related benefits in Great Britain for the financial year 2015/16. They are:
- Pension Credit
- Income Support
- income-related Employment and Support Allowance
- income-based Jobseeker鈥檚 Allowance
- Housing Benefit
Estimates for 2009/10, 2012/13, 2013/14 and 2014/15 are also presented.
Main data sources used
The main data sources used to produce estimates of take-up are:
- the Family Resources Survey, used to model the population in private households entitled to income-related benefits
- the DWP and local authority benefit records data 鈥� the basis of the Work and Pensions Longitudinal Study
- the DWP Statistical Summaries 鈥� providing the counts of benefit recipients and typical amounts received
Changes to this publication
Changes to the methodology for calculating take-up in this publication were announced in August 2017. See the statistical notice for more information.
Updates to this page
Published 14 September 2017