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Nationality of benefit recipients (FOI)

Nationality of benefit recipients (FOI)

Produced by the Freedom of Information office
Authored by Government of Jersey and published on 25 June 2020.
Prepared internally, no external costs.

Request

I want stats of people receiving income support - based on nationality. So how many Jersey people are on income support (I want Jersey born and UK born split) how many UK born people are on income support, how many Portuguese people are on income support, Polish etc.

Response

As of 24 June 2020, there are 11,693 people receiving Income Support; this figure includes children.

​Nationality 

​Number of people

​British ​4693
​Jersey​4568
​Portuguese ​1218
​Polish​444
​Elsewhere in the World​284
​Other European Country​169
​Romanian ​160
​Irish​157

​Total

​11,693


It should be noted that nationality may not be place of birth, as people may carry forward the nationality of their parents.

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