Department for Work and Pensions written question – answered at on 28 October 2014.
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many benefit payments of each type were paid into Post Office card accounts in each of the last five years; and what proportion of such recipients were (a) of working age and (b) retired.
Please find below details of the volume of payments, by benefit, paid into Post Office card accounts in each of the last five contract years from October 2009, the start of the current Post Office card contract. As at September 2014 the proportion of POca working age customers is 41.66% and retirement customers 58.34%.
Benefit type | Oct '09 to Mar '10 | Apr '10 to Mar '11 | Apr '11 to Mar '12 | Apr '12 to Mar '13 | Apr '13 to Mar '14 | Apr '14 to Sept '14 |
Attendance Allowance | 1,282,073 | 2,646,196 | 2,980,275 | 3,166,677 | 3,116,840 | 1,538,852 |
Child Support (DC) Client Fund | 2,079 | 5,608 | 9,178 | 9,689 | 7,938 | 285 |
1,197 | 3670 | |||||
284,118 | 557,228 | 648,147 | 626,507 | 584,705 | 268,170 | |
Dfee Employment Services | 79,971 | 214,855 | 59,427 | |||
4,090,836 | 7,931,027 | 7,678,957 | 7,488,219 | 7,179,077 | 3,386,779 | |
DWP Local Payment | 83,618 | 149,836 | 128,871 | 145,018 | 186,974 | 75,160 |
DWP Universal Credit | 334 | 634 | ||||
3,956,020 | 6,640,787 | 5,369,680 | 3,703,178 | 1,745,634 | 444,821 | |
32,694,702 | 57,496,385 | 48,077,834 | 42,369,841 | 35,144,716 | 15,612,744 | |
Industrial Injuries | 1,823,692 | 3,499,816 | 3,304,669 | 3,108,446 | 2,923,184 | 1,391,414 |
2,010,877 | 3,886,243 | 3,685,821 | 3,591,341 | 3,390,941 | 1,642,035 | |
2,126,450 | 3,952,375 | 4,039,600 | 3,986,790 | 3,154,319 | 1,177,786 | |
15,579 | 53,193 | |||||
141,271 | 268,619 | 206,031 | 145,249 | 105,362 | 15,817 | |
Retirement Pensions | 41,051,123 | 77,838,703 | 72,231,420 | 69,904,004 | 64,327,423 | 30,210,680 |
161,723 | 263,709 | 246,262 | 270,296 | 219,543 | 91,450 | |
Employment & Support Allowance | 339,047 | 1,380,741 | 2,286,925 | 5,264,219 | 7,812,066 | 4,358,635 |
Winter Fuel Payments DWP | 888,462 | 382 | 380 | 28 |
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