Supplementary memorandum by the Department
for Work and Pensions (CTB 17)
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION
TO ANNEX
6
An estimate of the overall number and percentage
of eligible council tax benefit claimants in England claimed council
tax benefit in each year since 1997 to the most recent year that
figures are available.
ELIGIBLE POPULATION, NUMBER OF RECIPIENTS,
AND PROPORTION OF THOSE ELIGIBLE IN RECEIPT, FOR ALL TENURE TYPES
| Eligible population; thousands
| Number of recipients; thousands |
Take-up;
percentage |
| 1997-98 | 6,580 : 7,040 |
5,380 | 76 : 82 |
| 1998-99 | 6,480 : 6,980 |
5,230 | 75 : 81 |
| 1999-2000 | 6,270 : 6,850 |
4,990 | 73 : 80 |
| 2000-01 | 6,150 : 6,710 |
4,700 | 70 : 76 |
| 2001-02 | 6,370 : 6,950 |
4,610 | 66 : 72 |
| 2002-03 | 6,440 : 7,020 |
4,570 | 65 : 71 |
| 2003-04 | 6,790 : 7,400 |
4,640 | 63 : 68 |
| 2004-05 | 7,130 : 7,810 |
4,860 | 62 : 68 |
Notes:
1. Caseload recipient and eligible population figures
are rounded to the nearest 10,000.
2. Estimates of those eligible and the take-up are given
as ranges, within which it can be assumed the true figure lies.
These ranges account for possible biases in the underlying data.
3. Eligible Population—Eligible Population ranges
are the sum of Recipients and the range of Entitled Non-Recipients.
4. Excluded from the tables are full-time self employed
cases and those not living in private households. Therefore, estimates
of claimants will not match other published sources.
5. Private Renter—The Private Renter category used
here includes people renting accommodation from Registered Social
Landlords.
6. Social Renter—Social Renter includes people
who rent their accommodation from the Local Authority Council,
and the housing does not come with a job.
7. Figures for tenure types may not sum to total population
due to rounding, and the fact that 95% confidence intervals have
been calculated separately for components and totals to reflect
sampling error.
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