Family Credit Claimants - London Boroughs
- Abstract
- Weekly tax-free social security benefit for working people bringing up at least one child (under age 16, or age 19 if in full time education). The amount depends on the number and age of children and weekly net earnings. The statistics show separately the number of claims from lone parents and couples.
- Main Topics/Subject Category
- Family credit claimants, number of children, family claiming, age of children in family.
- Variables
- Total number of family credit claimants, total number of children in families claiming fc, age of children, % of all claimants who are lone parent families.
- Keywords
- Claimants, income, welfare benefits, households, children, dependents
- Identifier Variables
- LA
- Economic/Subject Categories
- Income, Earnings, Benefits
- Area of Health System
- Other
- Data Available
- Demographic
- Data collecting organization (s)
- Department for Social Security
- Data Type
- Administrative
- National/Regional
- Regional
- Coverage (date of field work)
- 1999
- Unit of Analysis
- Individual
- Sample
- Total number of FC claimants in Greater London 57,513
- Availability
- London Health Observatory
- Conditions of Access
- Free access
- Link
- http://www.lho.org.uk/viewResource.aspx?id=7723
- Contact
- lhoenquiries@lho.NHS.uk