Social Security Benefits
(asked on 2nd November 2016) - View Source
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many and what proportion of new claims for (a) jobseeker's allowance and (b) employment and support allowance were processed within (i) five, (ii) 10 and (iii) 16 days in the most recent 12 months for which data is available.
The information requested is provided in the following table.
Oct 15 - Sept 16 (target 90% in 10 working days) | ||
Jobseekers Allowance (JSA) Claims | Processed in 5 days | 505,380 |
% processed in 5 days of the total claims processed | 37.5% | |
Processed in 10 days | 1,206,830 | |
% processed in 10 days of the total claims processed | 89.5% | |
Processed in 16 days | 1,309,561 | |
% processed in 16 days of the total claims processed | 97.1% | |
Oct 15 - Sept 16 (target 85% in 10 working days) | ||
Employment & Support Allowance (ESA) Claims | Processed in 5 days | 461,832 |
% processed in 5 days of the total claims processed | 58.2% | |
Processed in 10 days | 692,029 | |
% processed in 10 days of the total claims processed | 87.2% | |
Processed in 16 days | 738,806 | |
% processed in 16 days of the total claims processed | 93.1% | |
Source:
Management Information System Programme (MISP). MISP is a Departmental performance management, data capture and reporting tool. This type of internal management information does not form part of the official statistics outputs that are released by the Department in accordance with the UK Statistics Authority’s Code of Practice.