DWP benefits statistics
Source: gov.uk (2025-11-11)

Accredited Official Statistics and Official Statistics on the main benefits administered by the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP).

This collection brings together DWP Accredited Official Statistics and Official Statistics published quarterly on Stat-Xplore (https://stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/webapi/jsf/login.xhtml) on the following benefits:
- Attendance Allowance (AA)
- Benefit combinations
- Bereavement benefits (BB)
- Bereavement Support Payment (BSP)
- Carer’s Allowance (CA)
- Disability Living Allowance (DLA)
- Employment and Support Allowance (ESA)
- Housing Benefit (HB)
- HB flows
- Incapacity Benefit (IB)
- Income Support (IS)
- Industrial Injuries Disablement Benefit (IIDB)
- Jobseeker’s Allowance (JSA)
- Pension Credit (PC)
- Personal Independence Payment (PIP)
- Severe Disablement Allowance (SDA)
- State Pension (SP)
- Universal Credit (UC)
- Widow’s Benefit (WB)
We also publish Official Statistics on Maternity Allowance (MA) on a quarterly basis via data tables. These statistics are currently suspended, please see the MA collection page (https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/maternity-allowance-quarterly-statistics) for more information.

We have previously published Accredited Official Statistics and Official Statistics on the following benefit breakdowns twice a year in May and November via data tables within this collection:
- State Pension 5% sample
These data tables were suspended from August 2021 due to the source data not being representative following the introduction of a new DWP computer system.

Similar benefit statistics for Northern Ireland (https://www.communities-ni.gov.uk/topics/benefits-statistics) are available.

Please note that starting from the August 2025 release we will be including an additional flag relating to whether a customer’s Housing Benefit claim is considered to be in shortfall due to not fully covering their rent payment. There will be a flag added to Stat-Xplore Housing Benefit Point In Time Caseload table.

Employment Support Allowance and Jobseekers Allowance Ethnicity Data

Collection of ethnicity data for working age claimants outside of UC (new style ESA and JSA) was suspended in September 2025 until a new platform is delivered to receive New Style claims and collect the required claimant data. As a result ethnicity measures of the JSA and ESA caseload published within these statistics are suspended from the November 2025 release of these statistics onward, until the new collection is underway and completion of the ethnicity field in the JSA and ESA caseloads has passed the minimum 70% threshold. This means that JSA and ESA data to February 2025 (released in August 2025) is the latest available time point where ethnicity breakdowns are available on Stat-Xplore.

Housing Benefit: Geography Consultation

Following the user consultation on 23 September 2025 the decision has been made to discontinue 3 geography variables from the Housing Benefit caseload and flows data sets on Stat-Xplore.

These variables are Travel to Work Areas (TTWAs), UK International Territorial Levels (ITLSs), and Eurostats NUTS areas (NUTS). They will be discontinued as part of the next publication of these statistics in February 2026.

Cessation of Income Support Statistics

All Income Support (IS) claims are within scope of Move to Universal Credit and no claims will remain on IS. As the caseload has fallen very low and will not rise again, IS statistics will no longer be updated in the DWP Benefit Statistics publication.

The final quarterly update to IS Statistics was made in this November 2025 release, providing data up to May 2025. From February 2026 onwards, IS statistics will not be reported in the statistical summary and will not be updated in the supplementary data tables on Stat-Xplore. All previously published IS data will remain available. For more information on Move to Universal Credit, please see Move to Universal Credit statistics - GOV.UK (https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/move-to-universal-credit-statistics).

State Pension Undercount

To ensure accurate reporting, a temporary methodological solution has been applied to the data for May 2025 onwards to fully capture all State Pension cases, including those migrated to the Get Your State Pension (GYSP) service from the legacy platform. This means the statistics for May 2025 reflect the complete caseload, with no undercount.

Quarterly State Pension statistics for November 2024 and February 2025 contain a known undercount. During this period, approximately 5,000 to 6,000 cases (less than 0.05% of the total caseload) were migrated from the Pension Strategy Computer System (PSCS) to GYSP. However, due to the way GYSP data is compiled, these migrated cases were not yet visible in standard datastores and therefore were not included in the statistics.

While statistics for November 2024 and February 2025 remain unchanged, the temporary solution ensures that migrated cases are now included from May 2025 onwards. A permanent fix is in development to allow future statistics to capture all migrated cases without relying on tactical adjustments.

Scottish devolution: changes to the presentation of DWP statistics

The devolution of social security benefits (https://www.gov.scot/publications/responsibility-for-benefits-overview/) to the Scottish Government is now impacting DWP statistics.

Please refer to our background information note (https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/dwp-statistical-summary-policies-and-statements/dwp-benefits-statistical-summary-background-information-note) for more information on presentational changes we have made to our statistics in response to Scottish devolution.

Scottish Carers Allowance/Carers Support Payment Transition

Carer’s Allowance (CA) is being replaced in Scotland by Carer’s Support Payment (CSP). DWP has continued to administer CA to existing claimants in Scotland over a transitional period. Transfers of existing CA recipients to CSP began in February 2024 and CSP became fully available across Scotland for new claims in November 2024.

From November 2024 data onwards, Scottish cases of CA have decreased notably, with this trend expected to continue whilst transfers are ongoing. The Scottish government announced in October 2025 that this transfer process has been completed.

DWP will continue to administer CA to existing claimants over the transitional period. We will continue to include claimants living in Scotland in our statistics. However, as CSP continues to replace CA in the data, counts for Scotland no longer represent a full caseload. As such, if we were to continue to provide a total for Great Britain, this would no longer reflect the number of CA claims in Great Britain, nor reflect impacts of devolution to the DWP’s delivery of benefits.

To reflect these changes, we have added a new split to CA geography fields on Stat-Xplore to provide breakdowns based on policy ownership.

Further information

Read our background information note (https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/dwp-statistical-summary-policies-and-statements) for more details about changes and revisions to the release.

Email xxx@xxx.xx (mailto:xxx@xxx.xx) if you have any comments or questions about the information above.

Find contact information and more about DWP statistics on the Statistics at DWP (https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/department-for-work-pensions/about/statistics) page. Find future benefits statistics publication dates in our statistics release calendar (https://www.gov.uk/search/research-and-statistics?content_store_document_type=upcoming_statistics&organisations%5B%5D=department-for-work-pensions&order=release-date-oldest).