Data on the number of people claiming income support, incapacity benefit, and employment and support allowance who have been sanctioned are not available. The data that are available for jobseeker's allowance can be found in the following table.
Number of individuals1 Varied length 714.14 Fixed length 203.67 Entitlement decision 1072.09 1 Individuals and decisions based figures are rounded to the nearest ten and displayed in thousands. Some additional disclosure control has been applied. Notes: 1. This information is published at the Department for Work and Pensions website: http://www.dwp.gov.uk/asd/tabtool.asp 2. Data prior to April 2000 are not available. Source: DWP Information Directorate: JSA Sanctions and Disallowance Decisions Statistics Database.
This amounts to an average of 96,000 sanctions and 112,000 adverse entitlement decisions per year, respectively 10 per cent. and 12 per cent. of the average JSA caseload.