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WRITTEN QUESTION TO THE MINISTER FOR SOCIAL SECURITY BY THE DEPUTY G.P. SOUTHERN OF ST. HELIER
ANSWER TO BE TABLED ON TUESDAY 2ND MAY 2017
Question
Given the data comparison provided in answer to Written Question 184 between Table 7 of Social Security Department: Income Support 2011' (R.126/2012) and the figures given in Table 31 of Social Security Department: Minister's Report 2015' (R.104/2016), will the Minister provide a breakdown of the sources of income (such as earnings, maintenance, Long-Term Incapacity Allowance) included as "average other income" for adults with children in these tables?
Will the Minister further advise, in relation to the Income Support claims from families with children shown in Table 33 of R.104/2016, in how many of those claims did the claimants involved have earnings from full-time, part-time and zero-hour jobs; and will she indicate whether the proportion of claimants with zero- hour jobs in this group differs from that proportion for the workforce as a whole?
Answer
For the benefit of Members, extracts from the two reports referenced in the first question are provided below.
Table 7 – R.126/2012
Table 7 indicates the average weekly income received from Income Support and from other sources for each of the household types at the end of 2011.
Household Type | Income Support Benefit £ | Other Income £ | Total Household Income £ |
65+ | 158 | 202 | 360 |
Adult/s without Children | 166 | 130 | 296 |
Adults with Child/ren | 288 | 385 | 673 |
Single Adult with Child/ren | 333 | 177 | 510 |
All Claims | 208 | 193 | 401 |
Table 31 – R.106/2016
Table 31 indicates the average weekly income received from Income Support and from other sources for each of the household types at the end of 2015, as well as the percentages of the Income Support households that are wholly reliant on Income Support.
Household Type | Average Income Support Benefit £ | Average Other Income £ | Average Total Income £ | Percentage of Households wholly reliant on Income Support |
65+ | £176 | £223 | £399 | 1% |
Adult/s without children | £187 | £161 | £348 | 25% |
Adults with child/ren | £279 | £467 | £746 | 2% |
Single adult with child/ren | £353 | £232 | £585 | 14% |
Total | £227 | £238 | £465 | 13% |
Table 11: Total average (mean) weekly income based on claims as at 31 December 2015
Q.1: will the Minister provide a breakdown of the sources of income (such as earnings, maintenance, Long- Term Incapacity Allowance) included as "average other income" for adults with children in these tables?
The analysis of "average other income" in the tables above is shown in the table below for adults with children.
Type of income | 2011 | 2015 |
Average earnings | £ 335 | £425 |
Average maintenance income | £ 11 | £7 |
Average pension income | £ 2 | £1 |
Average other income, including contributory benefits* | £ 37 | £34 |
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Total average other income' | £385 | £467 |
* Income in this row includes rental income, insurance payments, benefits from other countries and charitable income, as well as Social Security contributory benefits.
Income from savings and investments (bank interest etc.) is not included in this table and this type of income is not included in the Income Support calculation. Charitable income is recorded but is then wholly disregarded from the Income Support calculation.
Q.2: Will the Minister further advise, in relation to the Income Support claims from families with children shown in Table 33 of R.104/2016, in how many of those claims did the claimants involved have earnings from full-time, part-time and zero-hour jobs; and will she indicate whether the proportion of claimants with zero-hour jobs in this group differs from that proportion for the workforce as a whole?
Table 33 shows the distribution of adults with earnings amongst all claims consisting entirely of working age adults as at 31/12/2015.
Working Age Household Type | No. of Claims with no Adult with Earnings | No. of Claims with at least one Adult with Earnings | Total No. of Claims | % of Households with no Adult with Earned Income |
Adult/s without children | 1,615 | 772 | 2,387 | 68% |
Adults with child/ren | 107 | 842 | 949 | 11% |
Single adult with child/ren | 450 | 632 | 1,082 | 42% |
Table 33: Working age adults with and without earnings as at 31 December 2015
Detailed information on the type of employment contract held by individual claimants is only recorded at the level of the individual record. It is not possible to use Income Support data to make a comparison between the proportion of Income Support claimants with a zero-hour job and the proportion for the workforce as a whole.