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 2009.

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, outlays, receipts and public finances