Research and Statistics

Housing Benefit and Council Tax Benefit

National Statistics

The latest national statistics on Housing Benefit and Council Tax Benefit produced by the Department for Work and Pensions were released on 20th January 2010 according to the arrangements approved by the UK Statistics Authority

Statistics are based on Housing Benefit (HB) and Council Tax Benefit (CTB) claimants in Great Britain at November 2008 to October 2009.

The key points from the latest release are:

To access the latest release in full click here PDF

Additional tables are available here XLS

Experimental Flows data are available here XLS

Further information on the statistics is available here

Coverage: Great Britain

Geographic Breakdown:Local Authority

Next Release Date: 17th February 2010