DWP's spreadsheet that shows benefit spending usually do distinguish
between contributory and means-tested JSA, and contributory and
means-tested ESA, so you should be able to work this out fairly easily.
http://statistics.dwp.gov.uk/asd/asd4/index.php?page=medium_term
Mike
> On 25 March 2011 14:42, BYRNE D.S. <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> The figures I can find do not seem to distinguish between the costs of
> the NI entitlement and related means tested benefits which are social
> assistance in form so I can't find for example the cost of the basic NI
> old age pension as opposed to a cost which seems to be both for that and
> for means tested pension credits etc.
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