Official Statistics: Benefit sanctions statistics to January 2019

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

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Data tables: benefit sanctions statistics to January 2019

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Quarterly official and experimental publication includes sanctions statistics for:

• Universal Credit (both full and live service)
• Jobseeker’s Allowance
• Employment and Support Allowance

Find further breakdowns of these statistics in Stat-Xplore, an online tool for exploring some of the Department for Work and Pensions’ main statistics. You can use Stat-Xplore to create your own customised tables and charts.

Find further information about the sanctions process, source of these statistics and the publication rounding policy in the background information and methodology documents.

Next release of these statistics: 13 August 2019

Published 14 May 2019
Last updated 26 July 2019 + show all updates

1. 26 July 2019 Revised the figures in the Universal Credit Full Service ‘Summary of Original Adverse Decisions’ table in the statistical bulletin following corrections to the monthly figures used in the calculations. The differences between the original figures published and the revised figures are minimal.
2. 19 June 2019 Updated data tables with repeat sanctions data for Jobseeker’s Allowance (new table 1.7b) and Employment and Support Allowance (new table 2.5a).
3. 14 May 2019 First published.