The available information is in the following tables.
AIMS MIG Non-MIG IS for the unemployed May 1990 4,180,000 1,675,000 1,442,000 1,063,000 May 1991 4,487,000 1,575,000 1,577,000 1,335,000 May 1992 5,088,000 1,643,000 1,783,000 1,662,000 May 1993 5,643,000 1,736,000 1,987,000 1,920,000 August 1994 5,702,000 1,785,000 2,109,000 1,887,000 August 1995 3,931,000 1,737,000 2,193,000 1,681,000 August 1996 4,007,000 1,727,000 2,278,000 1,502,000 August 1997 3,991,000 1,687,000 2,305,000 n/a August 1998 3,863,000 1,624,000 2,239,000 n/a August 1999 3,849,000 1,598,000 2,251,000 n/a August 2000 3,892,000 1,637,000 2,254,000 n/a August 2001 3,998,000 1,724,000 2,275,000 n/a August 2002 3,998,000 1,740,000 2,259,000 n/a August 2003 4,041,000 1,800,000 2,241,000 n/a August 2004 2,202,000 11,000 2,191,000 n/a August 2005 2,148,000 10,000 2,138,000 n/a August 2006 2,138,000 10,000 2,129,000 n/a
Number August 2004 2,593,000 August 2005 2,697,000 August 2006 2,728,000
Number 1997 1,182,000 1998 1,031,000 1999 928,000 2000 800,000 2001 695,000 2002 664,000 2003 635,000 2004 588,000 2005 634,000 2006 708,000 n/a = Not applicable Notes: 1. Figures are rounded to the nearest 1,000. 2. Pension credit was introduced on 6 October 2003 and replaced minimum income guarantee (income support for people aged 60 or over). The vast majority of people who were previously in receipt of the minimum income guarantee transferred to pension credit in October 2003 however some residual cases remain on the income support statistics. 3. income support for the unemployed was replaced by income-based jobseeker’s allowance in October 1996. 4. IS figures for August 1994 to August 1998 and all JSA (IB) figures have been derived by applying 5per cent. proportions to 100 per cent. WPLS totals. 5. Some income-based JSA claimants may also be entitled to benefit via the contributory route. Source: DWP 100 per cent. Work and Pensions Longitudinal Study (WPLS), DWP Information Directorate 5 per cent. samples and IS ASE 5 per cent. data