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<p /> <p>Information about claimants who were entitled to means tested ESA within
a month of their entitlement to contributory ESA expiring are in the table below.</p><p>
</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Year</p></td><td><p>Number of Claimants claiming means
tested ESA within a month of contributory ESA expiring</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012/13</p></td><td><p>69,000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013/14</p></td><td><p>59,000</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>
</p><p>Information on claimants qualifying for Income Support, income-related Jobseeker’s
Allowance, Pension Credit and claimants who have moved into work as a result of time
limiting is not collated centrally and could only be provided at disproportionate
cost.</p><p> </p><p>Notes:</p><p> </p><p>1. The 2012/13 data includes a number of
cases who had been in receipt of contributory ESA for 12 months or more at the point
the change was introduced.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>2. This estimate is based
on the Generalised Matching Service, which is a departmental data capture tool. The
data have not been fully quality-assured. This type of information does not form part
of the regular official statistics outputs that are released by the Department in
accordance with the UK Statistics Authority’s Code of Practice.</p>
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