Work and Pensions written question – answered at on 3 September 2012.
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how many Social Fund crisis loans were made to (a) individuals registered as disabled, (b) individuals over the pension age and (c) lone parent households in the last 12 months.
Table 1 as follows provides the figures on the total number of social fund crisis loan initial awards for the disabled, pensioner and lone parent client groups, along with total crisis loan awards for all groups. The data cover the last 12 months (July 2011 to June 2012) and relate to Great Britain.
Table 1: Total number of crisis loan initial awards for the disabled, pensioner and lone parent client groups, July 2011 to June 2012 | ||||
Number | ||||
Client group | ||||
Disabled | Pensioners | Lone parents | Total awards | |
2011 | ||||
July | 27,300 | 700 | 15,500 | 164,800 |
August | 27,700 | 700 | 17,900 | 194,100 |
September | 27,700 | 700 | 18,000 | 186,200 |
October | 25,000 | 700 | 17,100 | 176,600 |
November | 25,000 | 600 | 18,700 | 178,300 |
December | 22,500 | 500 | 18,800 | 180,500 |
2012 | ||||
January | 29,800 | 900 | 14,900 | 159,300 |
February | 28,600 | 600 | 14,500 | 156,500 |
March | 27,800 | 800 | 12,700 | 137,200 |
April | 24,300 | 500 | 13,600 | 143,200 |
May | 27,100 | 600 | 15,200 | 159,000 |
June | 25,400 | 500 | 15,100 | 148,800 |
Total (12 months) | 318,100 | 7,800 | 192,600 | 1,977,200 |
Notes: 1. The information provided is management information. Our preference is to answer all parliamentary questions using Official/National Statistics but in this case we only have management information available. It is not quality assured to the same extent as Official/National statistics and there are some issues with the data, for example, these amounts do not include expenditure on applications which were processed clerically and have not yet been entered on to the social fund computer system. 2. All of the figures relate to awards, not people. Individuals can apply for and receive more than one social fund loan in any given year. 3. All figures have been rounded to the nearest 100. 4. Pensioners includes awards where the: applicant or partner aged 60 or over, and in receipt of pension credit; or applicant or partner aged 60 or over, and in receipt of state retirement pension. 5. The pensioners client group also includes awards where applicant is under 60 and partner is: 60 or over with income support (IS) pensioner premium; 80 or over with IS higher pensioner premium; or 60 to 79, disabled with IS higher pensioner premium. 6. The disabled client group includes awards where the applicant is: in receipt of employment and support allowance; the applicant or partner aged under 60 with IS disability premium; lone parent with IS disability premium; family with IS disability premium; others with IS disability premium; or in receipt of other benefit for incapacity or disablement. 7. The lone parents client group includes awards where the applicant has no partner and is receiving income support because they are responsible for a child. Source: Budget and Management Information System (PBMIS, Initial Awards for Great Britain). |
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