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Employment and Support Allowance Claimants

Employment and Support Allowance (ESA) is a social security benefit for people who are unable to work due to illness or disability. There are 2 types of ESA: Contribution-based ESA is available to claimants who have paid enough National Insurance contributions. It is taxable; Income-related ESA is available to claimants who have no income or a low income. It isn't taxable.

Claimants of ESA must attend a Work Capability Assessment to assess what extent an illness or disability affects a claimants ability to work. Further information on claiming the benefit and eligibility can be found at [.GOV.UK Website](https://www.gov.uk/employment-support-allowance/overview).

Employment and Support Allowance data, presented here provides counts of Employment and Support Allowance claimants in the 694 Data-zones in the Glasgow conurbation. It shows breakdowns by their age, gender, duration of claim. From February 2010 it also includes their main disabling condition breakdown. Data covers years 2008 - 2013. It is an extract of the full UK dataset available for download from the [DWP](http://tabulation-tool.dwp.gov.uk/NESS/BEN/esa.htm).

The National Statistics Code of Practice requires that reasonable steps should be taken to ensure that all published statistics protect confidentiality. Every effort has been made by the DWP to ensure that data do not allow the disclosure of confidential information. All counts have been adjusted using a variant of controlled rounding to avoid the disclosure of any personal information. All cells have been rounded to base 5 and the total equals the sum of the disaggregation shown. Please note that any counts that are shown as zero may not be a ‘real’ zero. Although all small area totals are within 5 of the true value, aggregating them to form Local Authority totals is not recommended due to the fact that it is the sum of rounded figures. Local Authority totals should therefore be obtained from the [DWP Tabulation Tool](http://tabulation-tool.dwp.gov.uk/100pc/tabtool.html).



Data is correct at time of upload 2014:07:17T11:30:00

Department of Work and Pensions

2014-08-01 14:43:13

Department for Work and Pensions

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