JSA & UC Briefings: Monthly Welfare Claim Reports for York, 2022/23

Monthly briefings on Job Seekers Allowance and Universal Credit claims for the City of York during the 2022/23 period. The briefings are published by the Government Digital Service and are available in PDF format. The data is provided under the Open Government Licence.

Use Cases

• Track monthly changes in welfare claim volumes based on the briefing periodicity.
• Analyze local unemployment support trends for the City of York based on the geographic focus.
• Compare JSA and UC claim dynamics based on the two benefit types mentioned.
• Inform local social policy and resource allocation based on administrative briefing data.

Strengths

• Focuses on a specific geographic area (City of York), enabling local analysis.
• Covers two major UK welfare benefits (JSA and UC).
• Links to four underlying Key Performance Indicator datasets for raw data.

Limitations

• Data is presented in PDF format, which is not machine-readable without extraction.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count and dataset size are unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.

Provenance

Source

Government Digital Service

Collection Method

Administrative briefings compiled from welfare claim systems.

Time Range

2022/23

Freshness

Covers the 2022/23 period; last update date is unknown.

Geography

City of York, UK