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The economic status of all housing benefit/council tax benefit (HB/CTB) recipients is not available. Information is only available for those HB/CTB recipients whose claim is not passported: that is for those who do not receive either income support, jobseekers allowance (income-based), employment and support allowance (income-based), or pension credit (guaranteed credit).A small proportion of the passported cases will be in part-time employment.The available information is shown in the following table:<Table width="100%" summary="" cellspacing="3" cellpadding="3" border="0"><thead><tr><th>Housing benefit and council tax benefit recipients, non-passported, in employment, Great Britain—December 2011</th></tr></thead><TR><TD></TD><TD>Total</TD><TD>Non-passported (standard claims) in employment</TD></TR><TR><TD>Housing benefit only</TD><TD>576,220</TD><TD>234,520</TD></TR><TR><TD>Council tax benefit only</TD><TD>1,501,370</TD><TD>114,900</TD></TR><TR><TD>Housing benefit and council tax benefit</TD><TD>4,376,030</TD><TD>630,690</TD></TR><tfoot><TR><td>Notes:</td></TR><TR><td>1. The data refers to benefit units, which may be a single person or a couple.</td></TR><TR><td>2. Recipients are as at second Thursday of the month.</td></TR><TR><td>3. This data incorporates the local authority changes from 1 April 2009.</td></TR><TR><td>4. SHBE is a monthly electronic scan of claimant level data direct from local authority computer systems. It replaces quarterly aggregate clerical returns. The data is available monthly from November 2008 and December 2011 is the most recent available.</td></TR><TR><td>5. Passported status does not include recipients with unknown passported status.</td></TR><TR><td>6. These data refer to people receiving housing benefit and/or council tax benefit not in receipt of a passported benefit and are recorded as being in employment if their local authority has recorded employment income from either the main claimant, or partner of claimant (if applicable), in calculating the housing benefit award. People receiving passported benefits who are working part-time cannot be identified and are therefore not included in this analysis.</td></TR><TR><td>7. For those claiming both housing benefit and council tax benefit, the claimant's passported and economic status have been taken from the housing benefit data.</td></TR><TR><td>8. Data is rounded to the nearest 10.</td></TR><TR><td>Source:</td></TR><TR><td>Single Housing Benefit Extract (SHBE).</td></TR></tfoot></Table> |