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6.4 Benefit Claimants
6.4.1 All Benefit Claimants
Figures on the number of benefit claimants are available at ward level from the
Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) (Department for Work and Pensions 2008).
The data relates to 100% counts of benefit claimants, disaggregated to ward level.
DWP provides the number of claimants by main reason for claim by ward for those
people claiming benefits who are working age. There is also information at ward level
for the number of claimants of specific benefits such as Attendance Allowance, Disability
Living Allowance, Incapacity Benefit (IB) and Severe Disablement Allowance (SDA) or
the new Employment and Support Allowance (ESA), Income Support, Jobseekers
Allowance, Pension Credit and State Pension. All this information is updated quarterly,
the latest available quarter refers to claimants as at May 2009. The total number of
benefit claimants and the number claiming IB/SDA/ESA are both given below. However,
note that the totals for the Areas and the Localities (and Hull for IB/SDA) might be
slightly different from the true figure as they have been calculated from the sum of the
ward figures which have been rounded to the nearest five individuals. The figure for Hull
overall for all benefits has been obtained from the total provided by DWP (rather than
summing up the wards) so is accurate to the nearest ten individuals.
Using the information provided by DWP on all claimants of working age, and using
resident population estimates from the GP registration files, it is possible to calculate the
percentage of claimants as well as provide the absolute number of claimants at ward
level. Table 39 gives the number and Table 40 gives the percentage of claimants for
each ward in Hull by the type of the benefit for the working-age population (16-64 years
for men and 16-59 years for women). The numbers of working-age claimants have
been adjusted so that people claiming more than one benefit are only included in one
„main reason (for interacting with the benefit system)‟ category. The number of
claimants is given based on this main reason for the claim for Jobseeker Allowance,
IB/SDA/ESA, Lone Parent, Carer, other income-related benefit, Disabled and Bereaved.
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