Frank Field
Chair, Draft Modern Slavery Bill Committee, Chair, Draft Modern Slavery Bill Committee
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions pursuant to the answer of 8 January 2014, Official Report, column 240W, on jobseeker's allowance, how many short-term benefit advances were issued in each month from April to December 2013.
Esther McVey
The Minister of State, Department for Work and Pensions
We previously advised in the period April to December 2013 our Decision Makers awarded 60,749 short-term benefit advances to eligible benefit claimants. The following table gives a breakdown of the awards made each month.
| STBA awarded between 2 April 2013 to 3 January 2014 | |
| Number | |
| April | 5,489 |
| May | 6,318 |
| June | 6,190 |
| July | 8,935 |
| August | 6,993 |
| September | 8,214 |
| October | 6,051 |
| November | 6,017 |
| December | 6,542 |
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