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<p>The information requested is shown in the table below.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Number
of Work Programme Referrals, Job Outcomes and Sustained Job Outcomes for Employment
and Support Allowance (ESA) claimants by median age, Great Britain: 1 June 2011 -
30 June 2014</p><p> </p><p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>
</strong></p></td><td><p>Referrals</p></td><td><p>Job Outcome</p></td><td><p>Sustained
Job Outcomes</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Median Age (years)</p><p><strong> </strong></p></td><td><p>44</p></td><td><p>40</p></td><td><p>40</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>
</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p><p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p><p>Source: DWP
Statistical Services</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Notes:</p><p> </p><ol start="1"
type="1"><li>The latest Official Statistics on the Work Programme cover the period
1 June 2011 – 30 June 2014</li></ol><p> </p><p>2. Median age is the age of the claimant
at the time of referral.</p><p> </p><ol start="3" type="1"><li>Referrals: Referrals
shown are 'net' referrals which do not include rejections, cancellations or referrals
to ESA information sessions.</li><li>Job Outcomes: The Work Programme IT payment system
update went live in April 2012. All outcomes prior to this were recorded clerically
and uploaded to the system during April and May 2012. The outcome date for these is
based on the date the information was uploaded to the system. For job outcomes recorded
after this, outcome dates are based on the date that payments were made to providers
following pre-payment validation processes to confirm job outcomes. The manual pre-payment
validation checks may take time to conduct resulting in a delay between the job outcome
being claimed and the date the payment is made to providers, and hence recorded in
the statistics. Validation procedures continue to improve to streamline the process
as issues are identified. For further details around issues and delays to job outcome
payments please see the information note available on the WP landing page: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/work-programme-statistics--2"
target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/work-programme-statistics--2</a></li><li>Sustained
Job Outcomes: These are claimants who have received a Job Outcome payment and have
had at least 1 Sustainment payment.</li><li>Sustainment payments: Providers can only
claim a Sustainment payment where:</li><ol start="1" type="a"><li>A Job Outcome has
been reported;</li><li>Four continuous weeks in employment have elapsed between the
Job Outcome payment date and the Sustainment payment date, or between the previous
Sustainment payment date and the current Sustainment payment date.</li><li>A participant
has been in employment and off benefit each week (a week is defined as a 7 day period)
in the four week period; and</li><li>15 working days have passed since the last date
of the period being claimed.</li><li>Following a break in employment after the 104
weeks Allotted Time providers will no longer be eligible to receive a Sustainment
payment (a break is defined as when a participant leaves employment for 2 days or
more, even if they remain off benefit).</li></ol></ol><p> </p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>
</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p><p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p>
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