Table 3.
Types of benefit receipt and counts of weeks and people receiving entitlements, by five most common (in weeks) benefit types in the HF cohort in the five years and one year before housed.
| Type of benefit | 5 years before housed |
1 year before housed |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Women (n = 210) |
Men (n = 180) |
Women (n = 210) |
Men (n = 180) |
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| Number of people in receipt1 | Average number of weeks per person (n = 210) | Number of people in receipt | Average number of weeks per person (n = 180) | Number of people in receipt | Average number of weeks per person (n = 210) | Number of people in receipt | Average number of weeks per person (n = 180) | |
| Sole Parent | 123 (58.6%) | 85 | 12 (6.7%) | 6 | 93 (44.3%) | 17 | 9 (5%) | 2 |
| Invalids | 45 (21.4%) | 38 | 54 (30%) | 47 | 39 (18.6%) | 8 | 48 (26.7%) | 12 |
| Sickness | 75 (35.7%) | 22 | 14 (63.3%) | 56 | 41 (20%) | 6 | 69 (38.3%) | 12 |
| Jobseeker | 81 (38.6%) | 25 | 111 (61.7%) | 45 | 51 (24.3%) | 8 | 81 (45%) | 11 |
| Caring Sick Infirm | 9 (24.3%) | 2 | S | S | S | S | S | S |
1
These equate to more than 100% of the cohort as individuals can be on more than one benefit at a time.