unite and the benefit cap: building a new data platform daniel brown & william baxter - dwp
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UNITE and the benefit cap: building a new data platform
Daniel Brown & William Baxter - DWP
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Background
"This is the biggest reform of the welfare system in a generation,"
“Universal Credit is at the heart of the Government’s reforms”
Universal Credit
Income related JSAIncome related ESAIncome Support Working Tax CreditsChild Tax CreditsHousing Benefit
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Key question:
“ Can we use existing administrative data to create an analytical dataset that will bring together all the key elements of Universal Credit”.
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Data structure
UNITE
DWP HMRC LA
Source systems
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UNITE population?
• Includes Tax Credit, DWP and LA customers
• Over 18 million benefit claims
• Transformed to simulate Universal Credit
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UNITE population?
• But….
• Wider than Universal Credit
• 29 Million benefit spells
• Covers most DWP benefits
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Challenges
• Household level
• Linking large amounts of data
• New benefits
• Quality assurance
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Population
HMRC
DWP
HB
Universal Credit timeseries
Jan-11 Feb-11 Mar-11 Apr-11 May-11 Jun-11 Jul-11 Aug-11
Household
Individual
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• Universal Credit Caseloads/ migration
• Geographical analysis
• Interactions between legacy benefits
• Impact of UC on pensioners
• Benefit Cap
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Benefit Cap: Background
• Introduced from April 2013 by a reduction to HB payments
• Cap (maximum limit) on the total amount of benefits that people can get ensures that unemployed families will not receive more in benefits than the average income for working families
• Expected limits:• £500 per week for households comprising couples and lone
parents
• £350 per week for single persons
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Benefits in and out of scope
• LA administered benefits (Housing Benefit)
• DWP benefits (inc. JSA, ESA and Income Support)
• HMRC benefits (Child Tax Credit and Child Benefit)
• Exemptions will apply (Working Tax Credit, disability related benefits)
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Building the Cap population dataset
HMRC DWP
HB
HB claimants only
Identify those who are in scope for the cap:
Apply exclusions - people with disablities, workers.
Identify families whose benefit income exceeds
the maximum cap amount.
63,000 families identified as being in scope for the benefit cap
Benefits Claimed Number of Families
%
All 52,900 84.1
LA & DWP 5,300 8.4
LA only 1,500 2.3
UniteFamilies claiming HB
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Building the cap population dataset
• Use of a common identifier throughout (all data sources have already been matched to NINOs)
• Use of WTC to identify employment, CB data to identify number of dependent children and DLA to identify people with disabilities
• All benefit rates increased to allow for annual budget increases in the run up to April 2013
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Supporting operations
• address matching from CIS to generate mailshot which was sent to over 80,000 individuals
• Provision of personal information to enable JCP offices and LA’s to offer employment support and housing advice
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Amount capped based on benefit data to November 2011 compared to the Impact Assessment
Average Amounts Of Benefit Reduced For Assessment Units Affected By The Benefit Cap Policy
0%
10%
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UC Data Extract (percentage*) Impact Assessment
Loss By £50 Band
Proportion of Capped Households, in 2013-
14
Over £150
£101 to £150
£51 to £100
Up To £50
43.40%
23.18%
13.22%
20.21% 17%
12%
26%
45%
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Legend
PERCENT
up to 0.10
0.11 - 0.20
0.21 - 1.00
1.01 - 1.50
1.51 +
England and WalesHouseholds over the benefit cap, as a percentage of total households(excluding CTB)
Map produced by
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Regional Impacts
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Limitations
It’s good but…as with any administrative data, not perfect:
• not real-time data• relies on data sharing gateways across
Government (not in place for MOD war pensions exemption)
• does not allow for modelling all exemptions (e.g. 12 months employment spells)
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Summary
• Built a new data platform across Government benefits
• Used for operational support for the introduction of the benefit cap
• Benefit data allows us to model many family characteristics
• Some limitations – e.g. timeliness • Will support evaluation, analysis and statistics
as well as operations