Benefits
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.
Spending on benefits
UK expenditure on benefits
Nominal terms, real terms and % of GDP
Benefits for families
Child Benefit, Guardian's Allowance and Child's Special Allowance
Rates and claimants
Child Tax Credit and Working Tax Credit, WFTC, DPTC, DWA, FIS and Family Credit
Rates and claimants
Maternity Allowance and Statutory Maternity Pay
Rates
Benefits for the unemployed
Job Seeker's Allowance and Unemploment Benefit
Rates and claimants
Benefits for the elderly
Retirement Pension
Rates and claimants
Pension Credit
Rates and claimants
Benefits for people on low incomes
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
Benefits for sick and disabled people
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
Benefits for war and industrial injury and bereavement
War pensions
Rates and supplements
Industrial Injury Disablement Pension and Industrial Death Benefit
Rates and supplements
Widow's Allowance and Bereavement Allowance
Rates