Housing Benefit/Council Tax Benefit Claimants at small area level

Housing Benefit can be claimed by a person if they are liable to pay rent and if they are on a low income. Council Tax Benefit is designed to help people on low-income to pay their Council Tax. The data are broken down by gender, age and marital status.

Department for Work and Pensions (DWP)

Neighbourhood Statistics

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England and Wales

Lower Layer Super Output Area (LSOA), Middle Layer Super Output Area (MSOA), Local Authority District (LAD), County/Unitary Authority, Government Office Region (GOR), National

2010

2005, 2009, 2010

Annually

Administrative data

All counts have been adjusted using a random rounding method to avoid the disclosure of any personal information. Any low counts have been suppressed using the symbol x and consequently sums of counts may not equal the totals shown.

The two benefits are not listed separately in this dataset.

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