Active Guernsey income support claims by claimant type, August 2025
Active income support claims by claimant type at 16 August 2025: 3,204 in all, up 23 on a year earlier. Income support is the means-tested top-up for households below a requirement rate, and many claimants are in work.
Read this with the chart: Claims, not people: the claims cover more people once dependants are counted. From Table 6 of policy letter P.2025/123. "Other" includes carers, pregnant women, prisoners' spouses and partners in hospital. Income support is paid from General Revenue, not from the social security funds. The tooltip gives the figure a year earlier.
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