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Social Security Benefits: Long Term Unemployed People

Commons · Question 41955 · Tabled 27 Mar 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions · Official record

Answered 2 Apr 2025

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Asked by Nick Timothy

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many benefit claimant households included people who have (a) not worked for (i) five, (ii) ten, (iii) twenty and (iv) more than twenty years and (b) never worked in each year since 2010 in the late

Answer

Answered by Alison McGovern, 2 Apr 2025

The information requested is not readily available and to provide it would incur disproportionate cost.