Universal Credit sanctions statistics: background information and methodology
Information about sanctions statistics and methodology including the purpose, source, definitions and limitations of the statistics covered.
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»Ê¹ÚÌåÓýapp benefit sanctions statistics show the number of decisions made to apply a sanction to those on Universal Credit and the outcomes of the sanction process.
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New section 'Sanction rate by ethnicity - methodology' has been added.
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Published a revised version of the 'Universal Credit sanctions statistics: background information and methodology'. »Ê¹ÚÌåÓýapp next release of sanctions statistics will be published on 18 February 2025.
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Published a revised version of the 'Universal Credit sanctions statistics: background information and methodology'. New information about Ethnicity for Universal Credit Adverse Sanction Decisions has been added to the 'Definitions of decision types' section. »Ê¹ÚÌåÓýapp latest release of sanctions statistics has been published today, 13 August 2024.
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»Ê¹ÚÌåÓýapp section on the Status of the statistics has been updated. »Ê¹ÚÌåÓýapp Quality Statement has also been updated. »Ê¹ÚÌåÓýapp latest release of sanctions statistics has been published today (14 May 2024).
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Changes have been made to the About the statistics, Appeals, and Live Service sections of the background information and methodology document. »Ê¹ÚÌåÓýapp latest release of sanctions statistics has been published today (13 February 2024).
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»Ê¹ÚÌåÓýapp document has been updated to show that the sanctions statistics are now classed as 'official statistics in development'. »Ê¹ÚÌåÓýapp latest release of sanctions statistics has been published today (14 November 2023).
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Published a revised version of the 'Universal Credit sanctions statistics: background information and methodology'. New information about benefit sanction decisions during the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic has been added to the 'About the statistics' section, and the 'Feedback' section has been updated.
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Added information about the rounding of data in some sanction statistics tables, »Ê¹ÚÌåÓýapp latest release of sanctions statistics has been published today, 23 February 2020.
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Revised background information and methodology - updated to support the latest release of sanctions statistics, also published today (10 November 2020).
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Revised to support the latest release of benefit sanctions statistics, also published today (11 August 2020). Information added to the limitations of the statistics section - about how sanction decisions are recorded for Universal Credit full service.
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Revised information about the Universal Credit full service sanction decisions statistics.
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Revised to support the latest release of benefit sanctions statistics, also published today (18 February 2020).
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Published revised version, now dated November 2019. This has been updated to support today's release of sanctions statistics (these have data to July 2019).
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Published revised version, now dated August 2019. This has been updated to support the latest release of sanctions statistics (these have data to April 2019).
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Published revised version, now dated May 2019. This has been updated to support the latest release of sanctions statistics (these have data to January 2019).
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Published a revised version (May 2018) of the background information and methodology. Updated the table on page 5 of the document to make sure all the terms used are consistent.
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Published a revised version of 'Universal Credit sanctions statistics: background information and methodology'. »Ê¹ÚÌåÓýapp new version is dated February 2018 and has been updated to support the latest release of sanctions statistics.
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Clarified the paragraph at the end of page 4 about how sanctions reduce Universal Credit.
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Published a revised version of 'Universal Credit sanctions statistics: background information and methodology'. »Ê¹ÚÌåÓýapp new version is dated November 2017 and has been updated to support the latest release of sanctions statistics.
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Published a revised version of the background information and methodology - dated August 2017.
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First published.