Child Benefit
(asked on 19th April 2022) - View Source
Question to the HM Treasury:
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will publish data on the proportion and number of Child Benefit families that have opted out of receiving child benefit payment by gender of the registered claimant for each year between 2009 and 2018 inclusive.
Information on the number of Child Benefit claimants that have opted out of receiving payment is only available from 2013 when claimants were given the option of opting out of payment following the introduction of the High Income Child Benefit Charge (HICBC) in 2013. Below is a table summarising the counts of Child Benefit claimants that opted out of receiving payment and their respective proportion of the total for each year from 2013 to 2018 inclusive.
Gender of Child Benefit claimants that have opted out of receiving payment, 2013 to 2018 | |||||||
| Total | Number of claimants | Number of claimants as a % of total | ||||
| Female | Male | Unavailable | Female | Male | Unavailable | |
August 2013 | 396,980 | 344,135 | 34,400 | 18,445 | 87% | 9% | 5% |
August 2014 | 475,740 | 410,580 | 43,120 | 22,040 | 86% | 9% | 5% |
August 2015 | 491,695 | 420,970 | 47,530 | 23,195 | 86% | 10% | 5% |
August 2016 | 503,585 | 427,785 | 51,735 | 24,070 | 85% | 10% | 5% |
August 2017 | 515,920 | 434,955 | 56,070 | 24,895 | 84% | 11% | 5% |
August 2018 | 545,340 | 456,085 | 63,140 | 26,115 | 84% | 12% | 5% |
Source: Child Benefit Statistics: annual release, August 2021