Benefit Sanctions statistics to February 2025
Statistics about sanctions on Universal Credit (UC). The data will be available as normal for analysis via Stat-Xplore. Changes have been made to the format of the DWP Universal Credit data feed to provide improvements to the accuracy of geography information, which require substantial changes to the code used to produce the quarterly Benefit Sanctions Statistics. It has not been possible to implement these within the time frame for production of the statistics for the UC Adverse Sanction Decision measure. The UC Sanction Rate measure is unaffected by this delay. This means the release on 13 May 2025 will contain UC sanction rate and conditionality statistics only. We will provide an update on progress for the reinstatement of the UC Adverse Sanction Decision measure no later than 9 June 2025.