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  "A household is a single claimant or a couple claiming together, with any children. DWP revises the previous two years with each release. The hub shows the last five years; Stat-Xplore holds earlier months.",
  "DWP's total, like its published figures, includes cases abroad and cases whose address is not known, so the nations may not add up exactly to it.",
  "DWP adds a small random amount to every figure in Stat-Xplore to protect confidentiality (it calls this Introduced Random Error) and publishes no bound for it, so nations and regions may not add up exactly to the total. The verification page shows the gaps for information.",
  "Each refresh compares the latest month with the headline of DWP's GOV.UK release, which is rounded, so it checks that month's total; every month is checked against Stat-Xplore itself, queried twice.",
  "The full series is on DWP's Stat-Xplore (stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk), where anyone with a free account can build the same table."
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