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<p>This statistic was part of a series last updated in April 2016 and has since been
discontinued. It formed part of the Social Justice Outcomes Framework which was replaced
by the Improving Lives: Helping Workless Families indicators, published in April 2017.
Any new statistic measuring the duration of working age benefit claims would need
to incorporate Universal Credit data. As a result, the information requested is not
readily available and can only be provided at disproportionate cost.</p><p> </p><p>The
Government still produces data on long-term worklessness and on some individual out-of-work
benefit claim durations. The Office for National Statistics publishes data on children
in long-term workless households and on households where all members have never worked.
There is also available data on the duration of Job Seeker’s Allowance, Income Support
and Employment and Support Allowance claims.</p>
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