Statistics
The average number of claimants between the years 2003 and 2008 was 814,000, and average number of new claims was approximately 2,463,000. Nearly 40% of income-based claimants during 2003, were also claiming Housing Benefit. The DWP for England and Wales showed one third of the total number of claimants for JSA were persons having been convicted of a crime resulting in their act(s) having been recorded by the police authorities. In the Guardian newspaper in March 2001, the success of the New Deal scheme was reported, the report stated that 270,000 people were found full-time employment and the cost of achieving this end was half of the estimated amount. According to a report in 2008 by the Social Market Foundation there were approximately 100,000 long-term unemployed persons claiming JSA, at any given time.
Since the beginning of 2010 to April 2011 the number of claimants having found their benefits in non-payment was greatly increased relatively, amounting to 75,000 persons. The Department for Work and Pensions denied targeting vulnerable people.
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