Post Office Card Account

Department for Work and Pensions written question – answered at on 28 October 2014.

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Photo of Fiona O'Donnell Fiona O'Donnell Labour, East Lothian

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.

Photo of Steve Webb Steve Webb The Minister of State, Department for Work and Pensions

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

CMEC

1,197

3670

CSA DWP Payments - CSA DWP

284,118

557,228

648,147

626,507

584,705

268,170

Dfee Employment Services

79,971

214,855

59,427

Disability Living Allowance

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

Incapacity Benefit

3,956,020

6,640,787

5,369,680

3,703,178

1,745,634

444,821

Income Support

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

Invalid Care Allowance

2,010,877

3,886,243

3,685,821

3,591,341

3,390,941

1,642,035

Jobseekers Allowance

2,126,450

3,952,375

4,039,600

3,986,790

3,154,319

1,177,786

Personal Independence Payment

15,579

53,193

Resource Management

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

Social Fund

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

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