AQW 10286/17-22


Ms Kellie Armstrong
Alliance Party
Strangford


Tabled Date: 16/11/2020
Answered On Date: 25/11/2020
Priority Written: No


Question:
To ask the Minister for Communities how many people in each constituency receive carers allowance; and how many of those carers are also in receipt of Universal Credit or legacy benefits.


Answer:
The table below shows the number of people who receive a Carers Allowance payment by constituency and who are also in receipt of Universal Credit or a legacy benefit. These figures are from the most recent published data as of May 2020.
Constituency
Carer's Allowance Recipients1
Also Claiming Universal Credit or a legacy benefit2
BELFAST EAST
2,150
1,200
BELFAST NORTH
3,960
2,660
BELFAST SOUTH
1,820
1,080
BELFAST WEST
4,660
3,400
EAST ANTRIM
1,990
930
EAST DERRY
2,760
1,430
FERMANAGH AND SOUTH TYRONE
2,360
1,140
FOYLE
3,880
2,440
LAGAN VALLEY
1,890
890
MID ULSTER
2,910
1,360
NEWRY AND ARMAGH
3,220
1,690
NORTH ANTRIM
2,390
1,170
NORTH DOWN
1,640
690
SOUTH ANTRIM
2,030
930
SOUTH DOWN
2,950
1,480
STRANGFORD
2,090
940
UPPER BANN
3,070
1,560
WEST TYRONE
2,920
1,580
UNKNOWN3
140
100
Total4
48,810
26,650
1 The Carers Allowance figures refer to people who receive a payment and does not include people who have what is known as an underlying entitlement to the benefit but do not receive a payment.
2 Legacy benefits included in the above are Jobseekers Allowance, Income Support, Employment and Support Allowance and Pension Credit.
3 In producing this analysis, individual records were attributed to a Parliamentary Constituency on the basis of their postcode. Not all records can be correctly allocated using this method, and some cannot be allocated at all.
4 Figures may not sum due to rounding.