Fiscal Facts

Benefit tables

This section has details of yearly rates and allowances for benefits available in the UK, going back as far as 1939. Where possible numbers of recipients are also shown.

These tables were last updated in March 2007.

Benefits for families

Child Benefit, rates and claimants

Child Tax Credit and Working Tax Credit, WFTC, FIS and Family Credit, rates and claimants

Guardian's Allowance and Child's Special Allowance

Maternity Allowance

Benefits for the unemployed

Unemploment Benefit and Job Seeker's Allowance, rates and claimants

Benefits for the elderly

Retirement Pension, rates

Pension Credit, rates and recipients

Benefits for people on low incomes

Income Support and Supplementary Benefit, personal allowances, premia and claimants

Housing Benefit and Council Tax Benefit, personal allowances, premia and claimants

Social Fund, including Winter Fuel Payments and Sure State Maternity Grants, claimants and amounts

Benefits for sick and disabled people

Incapacity Benefit, Invalidity Benefit and Sickness Benefit, rates

Disability Living Allowance, Mobility Allowance and Attendance Allowance, rates and claimants

Disabled Person's Tax Credit and Disability Working Allowance, rates

Severe Disablement Allowance, rates

Carer's Allowance, rates

Benefits for war and industrial injury and bereavement

War pension, rates and supplements

Industrial Injury Disablement Pension and Industrial Death Benefit, rates and supplements

Workmen's Compensation (Supplementation) Scheme and Pneumoconiosis, Byssinosis and Miscellaneous Diseases Benefit Scheme, rates

Widow's Allowance and Bereavement Allowance, rates

Spending on benefits

UK expenditure on benefits