Benefit Sanctions statistics to May 2025

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UC live service data is frozen to April 2019, when the systems that were used to administer live service cases were shut down. UC live service data continues to be included in the rate and duration statistics. Please see the UC background information and methodology document for more information on the ethnicity methodology. The data in this publication is the latest available for statistics on sanctions for UC . Statistics are available from: May 2016 to April 2025 for UC full service adverse sanction decisions January 2017 to May 2025 for UC full service and live service rate, sanction durations, and conditionality regimes where sanctions can be applied Users can also: produce their own tables and access demographic breakdowns using Stat-Xplore – please see the Stat-Xplore User Guide for information about generating tables on Stat-Xplore access the supporting data tables that accompany each release of statistics Claimants are required to meet agreed conditions to be eligible for Univ