Income Support

Background

Income Support (IS) can be paid to a person who:

• is in Great Britain
• is aged 16 or over
• is not working 16 hours or more a week
• has less money coming in than the law says they need to live on.

From October 1996, the Jobseekers Allowance replaced IS for unemployed people. In general IS is now only available to people who are not required to be available for work such as:

• pensioners
• lone parents
• sick and disabled people.

Key Facts

• At May 2006, the IS claim rate in Haringey was 10.8 per cent (or 16,760 people); this is down slightly from a rate of 10.9 per cent (or 17,000 people) at May 2005.
• Haringey's IS claim rate of 10.8 per cent is higher than both the London and England averages of 7.6 per cent and 5.7 per cent respectively.
• 68.3 per cent of IS claimants in Haringey are female while 31.7 per cent are male.
• 43.4 per cent of IS claimants in Haringey are lone parents compared with 43.5 per cent in London and 37.7 per cent in England.
• 10.9 per cent of IS claimants are up to the age of 24; 59.5 per cent are aged 25 to 44; and 29.5 per cent are aged 45 and over.
• 72.3 per cent of people claiming IS in Haringey have been doing so for over 2 years. The comparable rates for London and England are 71.4 per cent and 68.6 per cent respectively.
• Across Haringey, the highest IS claim rates are in Super Output Areas in the east of the borough.

To view maps of these data, follow the links in the Attached Files section below.

Further Information

For more detailed IS data and and up-to-date eligibility conditions and rules for claiming IS, follow the link in the Useful External Links section below.

Attached Files

Filename	Filetype	Size
income support - haringey lower layer super output area map february 2006	Other File Type	874K
income support - haringey lower layer super output area map - may 2006	Other File Type	869K

Useful External Links

The following links are not part of the Haringey Council website. Please read our legal disclaimer before using these links

• Income Support information from DirectGov

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