Last updated: 09/24/2018

<p>Datasets of Lower Super Output Areas of Cambridgeshire and Peterborough detailing claimant counts of benefits for every month between Feb '00 - Feb '15</p> <p><strong>Employment and Support Allowance (ESA)</strong> replaced Incapacity Benefit and Income Support paid on the grounds of incapacity for new claims from 27th October 2008. It is paid to people who are incapable of work and who meet certain contribution conditions.</p> <p><strong>Jobseeker's Allowance</strong> is a benefit payable to unemployed people. In general, to be entitled to claim a person must be available for work, be actively seeking work, and have entered into a Jobseeker's Agreement with Jobcentre Plus.</p> <p><strong>Income support</strong> is a non-contributory benefit paid to people who have low incomes and who are not required to be available for employment. The main types of people receiving IS are pensioners, lone parents, the long and short-term sick, people with disabilities and other special groups.</p> <p><strong>Attendance Allowance</strong> In December 2015, an additional two files were added to show the number of Attendance Allowance claims made as at May 2015, based on a DWP data query.</p>

Downloads

• benefit claimants - employment and support allowance for small areas (csv)
• benefit claimants - income support for small areas (csv)
• benefit claimants - job seekers allowance for small areas (csv)
• Attendance Allowance claims at May 2015 (xls)
• Attendance Allowance claims at May 2015 (csv)

Themes

• Deprivation
• Economy

Keywords

• Benefits
• employment
• jobs

Additional metadata

Key	Value
contactPoint	Office for National Statistics (ONS) (email)
publisher	Cambridgeshire County Council - Policy and Insight Team
accessLevel	public
identifier	76b7ec3b-6ba5-4434-ae77-ddf2c7c3045f
issued	2018-07-30
landingPage	https://data.cambridgeshireinsight.org.uk/dataset/benefit-claimants-cambridgeshire-and-peterborough
modified	2018-09-24
temporal	2000-02-01T00:00:00+00:00/2015-02-01T00:00:00+00:00