Fiscal facts: tax and benefits
This page provides links to facts and figures about UK taxes and benefits.
Information about taxes, including explainers of how taxes work and data on tax rates, can now be found at https://ifs.org.uk/taxlab/.
This note describes the UK benefit system:
The spreadsheets below give give current and historical benefit and tax credit rates, numbers of claimants and expenditure levels.
Benefits
UK expenditure on benefits
Nominal terms, real terms and % of GDP
Job Seeker's Allowance and Unemploment Benefit
Rates and claimants
Retirement Pension
Rates and claimants
Pension Credit
Rates and claimants
Income Support and Supplementary Benefit
Personal allowances, premiums and claimants
Housing Benefit
Personal allowances, premiums and claimants
Council Tax Benefit
Personal allowances, premiums and claimants
Social Fund, including Winter Fuel Payments and Sure State Maternity Grants
Awards and amounts
Universal Credit
Allowances, premiums and claimants
Employment and Support Allowance, Incapacity Benefit, Invalidity Benefit and Sickness Benefit
Rates and Claimants
Disability Living Allowance, Mobility Allowance and Attendance Allowance
Rates and claimants
Carer's Allowance
Rates and claimants
War pensions
Rates and supplements
Industrial Injury Disablement Pension and Industrial Death Benefit
Rates and supplements
Widow's Allowance and Bereavement Allowance
Rates
