Benefit sanctions statistics to January 2020

Requirements

If you do not meet one or more conditions of your benefit claim without good reason, your benefit could be stopped or reduced. This is a benefit sanction. However, not everyone that is initially referred for failing to meet the conditions of their claim will receive a sanction. Where a claimant’s benefit is reduced, the claimant may be eligible for a hardship payment. Further information about the sanctions process, source of these statistics and the publication rounding policy can be found in the background information and methodology documents . Users can also: Produce their own tables and access demographic breakdowns using Stat-Xplore Access supporting tables The data in this publication is the latest available for each of the following sets of statistics.