Employment and Support Allowance: every value since 2008
The weekly personal allowance in Employment and Support Allowance for a single person, as DWP's abstract of benefit rates gives it.
Department for Work and Pensions gives 19 values for this rate, from £60.50 in October 2008 to £95.55 in April 2026. Each row is a date on which the rate was set; between the first and the latest it went up 14 times, and 4 rows repeat the previous value. The largest rise from one value to the next was +10.1%, in April 2023 (from £77.00 to £84.80). Across the whole series the cash value changed by +57.9%. The value in April 2025 was +1.7% on the one before; ONS CPI inflation for calendar year 2025 was 3.4%. Ten years before the latest value, in April 2016, it was £73.10. DWP's expenditure tables put total spending on Employment and Support Allowance at £12.3 billion in 2024/25, with an average caseload of 1,437 thousand.
Single person
| From | Single person (a week) | Change on previous value | CPI inflation that calendar year (ONS, D7G7) |
|---|---|---|---|
| April 2026 | £95.55 | +3.8% | not yet published |
| April 2025 | £92.05 | +1.7% | 3.4% |
| April 2024 | £90.50 | +6.7% | 2.5% |
| April 2023 | £84.80 | +10.1% | 7.3% |
| April 2022 | £77.00 | +3.1% | 9.1% |
| April 2021 | £74.70 | +0.5% | 2.6% |
| April 2020 | £74.35 | +1.7% | 0.9% |
| April 2019 | £73.10 | – | 1.8% |
| April 2018 | £73.10 | – | 2.5% |
| April 2017 | £73.10 | – | 2.7% |
| April 2016 | £73.10 | – | 0.7% |
| April 2015 | £73.10 | +1.0% | 0.0% |
| April 2014 | £72.40 | +1.0% | 1.5% |
| April 2013 | £71.70 | +1.0% | 2.6% |
| April 2012 | £71.00 | +5.2% | 2.8% |
| April 2011 | £67.50 | +3.1% | 4.5% |
| April 2010 | £65.45 | +1.8% | 3.3% |
| April 2009 | £64.30 | +6.3% | 2.2% |
| October 2008 | £60.50 | 3.6% |
CPI: ONS series D7G7, for the calendar year the period starts in. About these tables · CSV
Related pages
Sources and receipts
- Abstract of DWP benefit rate statistics 2025: data tables, Department for Work and Pensions.
File: data-tables-abstract-of-dwp-benefit-rate-statistics-2025.ods. Read 2026-10-15. SHA-256
88418e37624a12186fbbd90f24f5dd31907b5743b1357e027f7b8bfd77da85d3 - Benefit and pension rates 2026 to 2027, Department for Work and Pensions.
Read 2026-10-15. SHA-256
c9ecaacbc351d6d9558982356f12251224815e34b4d00747f2a3b40f7a598b01 - Consumer price inflation time series (MM23), Office for National Statistics.
File: mm23.csv. Read 2026-10-15. SHA-256
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