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Social Security Benefits

Asked by Nick TimothyConservativeDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled Answered 7 April 2025UIN 41958

The question

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many and what proportion of benefit claimant households had received welfare payments for (a) five, (b) ten, (c) twenty and (d) more than twenty years in each year since 2010 in the latest period fo

Answered by Sir Stephen Timms

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

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