Income Support Lone Parent Regime
The latest statistics on the Income Support Lone Parent Regime produced by the Department for Work and Pensions were released on 15 May 2013.
Statistics on the Income Support Lone Parent Regime include data for England, Scotland and Wales for the period up to the end of December 2012.
The key points from the latest release are:
- In the year up to and including December 2012, 744,000 Work Focused Interviews were conducted with lone parents in receipt of Income Support.
- In the year up to and including December 2012, 61,400 sanctions were imposed on lone parents in receipt of Income Support. These sanctions were imposed upon 47,700 individual claims. This represents 5.7% of the Income Support lone parent client base in that 12 month period.
To access the latest release in full click here 
Previous releases are available here.
Coverage: Great Britain.
Next Release Date: 14 August 2013
DWP have discovered a small methodological issue within the database production process. Initial analysis has shown that this has caused a small undercount within the twelve most recent months of WFI data. This has a marginal effect on the previous year's (2011/12) total as well as the latest data. As the undercount is small, DWP have published the statistics as normal. DWP will continue investigations and report findings on 14 August 2013 (next release date). Depending on investigations, statistics for 2011-12 and the latest periods may be revised.
