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<p /> <p /> <p>The available information is in the following tables:</p><p> </p><p>Table
1: Housing Benefit recipients by employment status: Great Britain, 2009/10 to 2013/14</p><p>
</p><table><tbody><tr><td rowspan="2"><p>Caseload (thousands)<sup>1</sup></p></td><td
rowspan="2"><p>In employment</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>Not in employment</p></td><td
rowspan="2"><p>Total</p></td><td rowspan="2"><p>Proportion in employment</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Receiving
means-tested out of work benefits</p></td><td><p>Not receiving means-tested out of
work benefits (pensioners and other working age)</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>September
2009</p></td><td><p>527</p></td><td><p>2,067</p></td><td><p>1,944</p></td><td><p>4,539</p></td><td><p>11.6%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>September
2010</p></td><td><p>702</p></td><td><p>2,142</p></td><td><p>1,953</p></td><td><p>4,797</p></td><td><p>14.6%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>September
2011</p></td><td><p>835</p></td><td><p>2,174</p></td><td><p>1,925</p></td><td><p>4,934</p></td><td><p>16.9%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>September
2012</p></td><td><p>934</p></td><td><p>2,227</p></td><td><p>1,880</p></td><td><p>5,041</p></td><td><p>18.5%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>September
2013</p></td><td><p>1,019</p></td><td><p>2,192</p></td><td><p>1,811</p></td><td><p>5,022</p></td><td><p>20.3%</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>
</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Table
2: Average Housing Benefit award by employment status: Great Britain, 2009/10 to 2013/14</p><p>
</p><table><tbody><tr><td rowspan="2"><p>£ per week</p></td><td rowspan="2"><p>In
employment</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>Not in employment</p></td><td rowspan="2"><p>Total</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Receiving
means-tested out of work benefits</p></td><td><p>Not receiving means-tested out of
work benefits (pensioners and other working age)</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>September
2009</p></td><td><p>76.54</p></td><td><p>92.01</p></td><td><p>71.62</p></td><td><p>81.58</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>September
2010</p></td><td><p>84.68</p></td><td><p>94.06</p></td><td><p>73.54</p></td><td><p>84.42</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>September
2011</p></td><td><p>86.92</p></td><td><p>96.08</p></td><td><p>76.64</p></td><td><p>87.01</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>September
2012</p></td><td><p>87.75</p></td><td><p>97.55</p></td><td><p>80.19</p></td><td><p>89.32</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>September
2013</p></td><td><p>89.51</p></td><td><p>95.87</p></td><td><p>82.64</p></td><td><p>89.87</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>
</p><p>Table 3: Housing Benefit Outturn expenditure by employment status: Great Britain,
2009/10 to 2013/14</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td rowspan="2"><p>£ million, real
terms (2014/15 prices)</p></td><td rowspan="2"><p>In employment</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>Not
in employment</p></td><td rowspan="2"><p>Total</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Receiving means-tested
out of work benefits</p></td><td><p>Not receiving means-tested out of work benefits
(pensioners and other working age)</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2009/10</p></td><td><p>2,591</p></td><td><p>11,208</p></td><td><p>8,275</p></td><td><p>22,074</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2010/11</p></td><td><p>3,438</p></td><td><p>11,460</p></td><td><p>8,161</p></td><td><p>23,060</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2011/12</p></td><td><p>4,092</p></td><td><p>11,667</p></td><td><p>8,257</p></td><td><p>24,016</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012/13</p></td><td><p>4,558</p></td><td><p>11,965</p></td><td><p>8,335</p></td><td><p>24,858</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013/14</p></td><td><p>4,958</p></td><td><p>11,383</p></td><td><p>8,122</p></td><td><p>24,462</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>
</p><p>Source: Single Housing Benefit Extract (SHBE) and local authority subsidy returns</p><p>
</p><p>It is important to note that the increase in the Housing Benefit caseload in
employment is driven by a number of factors, including:</p><p> </p><ul><li>The overall
increase in the number of households renting, whether or not in receipt of Housing
Benefit</li><li>Recession-related impacts such as previously unemployed HB claimants
moving into work and losing eligibility to passported benefits but continuing to claim
HB, where as a consequence of the complexity of the benefit system it is possible
that in some cases these households may not have made a claim for HB had they not
had a spell on out-of-work benefits. A key feature of Universal Credit is its smoothing
of this type of transition.</li></ul><p> </p><p>The information requested for those
who are self-employed is not readily available and could only be provided at disproportionate
cost.</p><p> </p><p>Information on numbers in employment do not include those Housing
Benefit recipients whose claim is passported: that is those receiving Income Support,
Jobseekers Allowance (Income-Based), Employment and Support Allowance (Income-Based),
or Pension Credit (Guaranteed Credit). This is unlikely to have a significant impact
on the trends shown in the tables.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Notes:</p><ol start="1" type="1"><li>In
employment expenditure is based on instances where either the claimant or their partner
has recorded earnings (which could be part-time or full-time) including pensioners,
estimated using administrative data from Local Authority systems.</li></ol><ol start="2"
type="1"><li>A small number of claimants on passported benefits who receive Housing
Benefit may also be working, or have a working partner. These claimants are not identified
in the data.</li><li>“Out of work benefits” refer to Income Support, income-based
Jobseekers Allowance and income-based Employment Support Allowance.</li><li>Annual
expenditure is calculated using quarterly averages of claimant numbers and claim amounts,
aligned to out-turn expenditure from local authority subsidy returns.</li><li>Total
out-turn expenditure for 2013/14 an estimate, based on SHBE data and the 2012/13 out-turn
expenditure; this is subject to revision as local authority subsidy returns are made.</li><li>Expenditure
figures may differ from previous published figures due to a change in methodology
and data sources.</li><li>Housing Benefit caseload and average weekly amounts information
can be found at: <a href="https://stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/" target="_blank">https://stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk</a></li></ol>
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