August 2021

UK, remember your settings august 2021 improve government services. You can change your cookie settings at any time. This publication is licensed under the terms of the Open Government Licence v3.

To view this licence, visit nationalarchives. Where we have identified any third party copyright information you will need to obtain permission from the copyright holders concerned. The latest release of these statistics can be found in the benefit statistics collection. Employment and Support Allowance fell to 1. Universal Credit has been replacing some older-style Working Age benefits. People can claim more than one DWP benefit at a time. Figures for Universal Credit, Personal Independence Payments and Housing Benefit covering later periods are available on Stat-Xplore.

What you need to know This release covers DWP benefits in Great Britain. For most benefits covered in this release the period covered is up to February 2021. For Bereavement Support Payment the period covered is up to March 2021, and for Housing Benefit data go up to May 2021. UC figures are presented to June 2021 for claimants and May 2021 for households. More detailed figures for the benefits covered in this summary can be found using Stat-Xplore.

This is an online tool that lets you create and download customised statistical tables or view the results as interactive charts. Latest State Pension estimates are not available on Stat-Xplore for this release and are provided through supplementary State Pension tables on a temporary basis. Please see Section 7 for more information about this. Such changes were necessary to process claims while keeping customers and staff safe, while ensuring those eligible received their benefits.

Experimental Benefits Combinations statistics explore how benefits are claimed in combination for claimants of all ages. Benefit Combinations statistics now include Industrial Injuries Disablement Benefit claimants and Under 16 DLA claimants, alongside updates to its methodology. For more information on how these statistics are produced, see our Methodology statement and Quality statement. The State Pension caseload has been decreasing in recent years. 4 million people receiving the State Pension at February 2021, a decrease of 130,000 on a year earlier.