Benefit sanctions statistics to November 2024

Requirements

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. In April 2023 72% of UC claimants with an adverse sanction decision had declared their ethnicity and we published breakdowns of adverse sanction decisions for UC claimants by ethnicity for the first time in August 2024. In the November 2024 release, we included statistics on numbers of people in conditionality regimes where sanctions can be applied by ethnicity. This was to allow meaningful comparison with adverse sanction decisions data. The level of ethnicity declarations for those claimants included within the sanction rate measure, reached the minimum level of 70% in September 2024 and are published for the first time in this release. Please see the UC background information and methodology document for more information on the ethnicity methodology. The data in this publicati