Datasets / Housing Benefit/Council Tax Benefit Claimants at small area level


Housing Benefit/Council Tax Benefit Claimants at small area level

Published By Department for Work and Pensions

Issued about 10 years ago

GB
final

Summary

Type of release
ongoing release of a series of related datasets

Licence
UK Open Government Licence

Verification
automatically awarded

Description

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. Source: Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) Publisher: Neighbourhood Statistics Geographies: Lower Layer Super Output Area (LSOA), Middle Layer Super Output Area (MSOA), Local Authority District (LAD), County/Unitary Authority, Government Office Region (GOR), National Geographic coverage: England and Wales Time coverage: 2005 Type of data: Administrative data Notes: The two benefits are not listed separately in this dataset.