Select Committee on Social Security Minutes of Evidence


Annex J

LOAN RECOVERY

AVERAGE ANNUAL REPAYMENT DEDUCTIONS FROM IS AND JSA
May 1999 August 1999November 1999 February 2000
Average deductionIS£8.93 £9.19£9.32 £9.41
JSA£6.92 £7.03£7.13 £7.09
Number of deductionsIS 622,000671,000703,000 709,000
JSA151,000 152,000147,000160,000

Note:

  1.  Data from Income Support Quarterly Statistics and Jobseeker's Allowance Quarterly Statistics

REPAYMENT SOURCE 1999-2000
Crisis Loans Budgeting Loans
Amount £m %Amount £m %
Income Support24.846.5 302.180.9
Jobseeker's Allowance17.9 33.549.513.3
Other benefits8.415.8 14.94.0
Cash2.34.3 6.71.8

Notes:

    Figures and percentages may not sum due to rounding.

    Social Fund loans are recoverable from Social Security benefits other than Child Benefit, Guardians Allowance and Attendance Allowance.


 
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