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Dept for Work and Pensions

Answer

Mr. Webb: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how many people in receipt of (a) the state pension, (b) jobseeker's allowance, (c) income support, (d) disability living allowance, (e) attendance allowance, (f) child benefit and (g) carer's allowance are receiving their payments via the Department's cheque-based service. [224525] Mr. Pond: The information is not available in the format requested. The information in the following table gives the number of benefit and pension accounts in receipt of the cheque method of payment as at 19 February 2005. _________________________________________________________________________________________________. Number accounts paid by cheque Retirement pension 75,400 Pension credit 157,055 Jobseeker's allowance 105,590 Income support 169,900 Disability living allowance (DLA) 168,715 Attendance allowance (AA) 27,970 Carers allowance (CA) 0 Total 704,630 _________________________________________________________________________________________________. The figures refer to accounts not claimants, a person with multiple benefits will be counted more than once. Child benefit figures are not included as they are the responsibility of Inland Revenue.

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

432 c1263-4W;432 c1261W; 224525

Session

2004-05

Subjects

Disability living allowance Child benefit Attendance allowance Carers' benefits Jobseeker's allowance Income support Payments Social security benefits State retirement pensions

Contains statistics

Yes

Link

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