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Tameside Welfare Reform: Key Numbers and Changes Impacting Claimants

Discover essential welfare numbers in Tameside, including claimants receiving benefits and the impact of recent reforms. Get insights on DWP working age benefits, Disability Living Allowance, Child Tax Credits, and more. Learn about changes from April 2011 and upcoming government plans. For more information, visit www.tameside.gov.uk/welfarerights.

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Tameside Welfare Reform: Key Numbers and Changes Impacting Claimants

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  1. Welfare Reform… Alan Franco

  2. Tameside Numbers • How many claimants of DWP working age benefits are there in Tameside? • Unemployed + sick+ lone parents+ carers = 28,210 • How many claimants in Tameside are receiving benefits as a result of producing a sick note from their doctor stating that they are not fit to work? • 13960 • How many claimants of Disability Living Allowance are there in Tameside? • 15,510 (all ages) (0-17 1,440, 18-64 9,830, 65+ 4,230)

  3. More Tameside numbers • There are 29,985 families with 50,735 children in Tameside – How many of these families receive Child Tax Credits as a boost to their income every month? • 24,800 families with 42,550 children = 83%

  4. Changes that have an impact as from April 2011… • Help with mortgage interest (October 2010) • Annual uprating of benefits linked to CPI not RPI • Child Benefit frozen • Tax Credits (more detail later) • Migration from Incapacity Benefit to ESA • Restrictions on crisis loans • Local Housing Allowance linked to lowest 30% of rents • Extra bedroom for disabled claimants • Non-dependant deductions

  5. Non-Dependant deductions

  6. LHA rates compared Claimants can no longer keep £15 excess Tameside and Glossop AreaMajority of Ashton, Mossley and Denton plus all of Stalybridge, Dukinfield, Audenshaw, Longdendale, and Hyde.

  7. Tax Credits • Help with child care costs reduced from 80% to 70% • Upper income limit reduced from £50,000 to £40,000 • Baby element abolished • In year rises in income that are ignored – limit reduced from £25,000 to £10,000 • Withdrawal rate increases from 39% to 41%

  8. Government plans … • Housing Benefit shared accommodation rate • Size criteria for working age claimants receiving HB in the social rented sector • Time limiting ESA • Disability Living Allowance replaced by PIP • Universal Credit • Localisation of community care grants • Localisation of crisis loans • More sanctions for non-compliance with Jobseeking requirements • Benefits capped at £500 pw

  9. Need more info? www.tameside.gov.uk/welfarerights

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