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Kemi Badenoch has repeatedly asserted that a working family would now need to earn £71,000 to match the income of a jobless household with three children; BBC reporting shows she made that specific £7...
National statistics show clear ethnic variation in benefit receipt: in Universal Credit claimants in January–June 2025, 76% were recorded as White, 10–10.4% Asian/Asian British and 6.0% Black/African/...
Around one in three people in the UK are receiving some combination of DWP-administered benefits, with DWP reporting 13.1 million State Pension recipients in February 2025 and media citing “around 24 ...
UK authorities and national statisticians do not have a single official count of people living in the UK without legal permission; instead, statisticians rely on a mix of administrative-data-based pop...
Most UK claimants receive Department for Work and Pensions (DWP)-administered payments that include the State Pension and income-related benefits such as Universal Credit; nearly 24 million people wer...
As of mid‑2025, official DWP releases show millions on Universal Credit: government tables reported around 7.4 million people on UC in early 2025 (age breakdown figures reflected in Statista’s use of ...