One in seven adults in one Welsh county has spent three of the last four years on benefits.
Data released today shows there were 6,980 people in Blaenau Gwent receiving one of five working-age benefits as of March last year.
The benefits are: Jobseekers' Allowance, Incapacity Benefit, Seven Disablement Allowance, Income Support or Employment and Support Allowance.
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Of those, 5,090 had been claiming for at least three of the previous four years.
That represents 14.5% of the total working-age population of Blaenau Gwent, which stands at 35,000 adults.
In other words, one in 6.9 adults aged 22-59 in Blaenau Gwent has been on at least one of those benefits for three out of the previous four years.
To put that in perspective, in Powys the figure is one in 16.6 while in Monmouthshire it is 16.2.
Merthyr Tydfil has the second highest proportion of long-term benefit claimants.
Some 4,100 people there have been claiming one of the five benefits for at least three out of four years - 13.7% of all working-age adults, or one in 7.3.
In Neath Port Talbot the figure is 13.4% (one in 7.5) while in Rhondda, Cynon, Taff it is 12.9% (one in 7.7).
Across Wales as a whole, 144,060 working-age adults have been claiming one of the five benefits for at least three of the last four years.
see-http://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/how-many-people-benefits-you-11210175
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