Income Support and employment statistics (FOI)

Request

Can you provide, to the most recent year as possible, the number of unemployed people receiving income support (excluding OAPs), the number of employed people receiving income support and the total number of people employed in that same year?

Response

Please refer to the Minister’s Report 2017, Social Security Department, pages 50-51, which can be found at the following link:

Minister’s Report 2017

The number of Income Support claims with no adult with earnings are 1,917 and the number of Income Support claims with at least one adult with earnings are 2,120.

Information for the total number of people employed for December 2017 can be found at the following link:

Labour market for December 2017

The most up to date information for the total number of people employed is for June 2018 and can be found at the following link:

Labour market statistics

The December 2018 labour market survey will be published on 5 April 2019

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