Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many and what proportion of applications for short-term benefit advance were successful in the most recent 12 months for which data is available; and what reasons were given to those people who made such unsuccessful applications in that period.

The information requested for Short Term Benefit Advance (STBA) applications is shown in the following table.

The Department does not hold data on reasons for unsuccessful applications.

Notes:

Data has been provided for October 15 – September 16 which is the latest data available. Data after this date is not currently available.

Only Working Age Benefits (i.e. ESA, IB, JSA and IS) are included in the above information for STBA applications as the number of applications received for State Pension Credit and Carers Allowance is not available.

Source:

STBA Referred for Decision - Management Information System Programme (MISP). This collation is based on clerical counts submitted by the each Centre and is Internal MI which has been agreed for use in publications of Parliamentary questions and Freedom of Information requests.

STBA Awarded - Benefit Expenditure Business Information system