Benefit Cap

• Published by: Department for Work and Pensions
• Last updated: 20 August 2015
• Topic: Society
• Licence: Open Government Licence

Summary

In April 2013, the government introduced a cap on the total amount of benefit that working-age people can get, so that households on out-of work benefits will no longer get more in welfare payments than the average weekly wage for working households. These statistics cover:

• cumulative and point-in-time statistics on the number of households capped at GB, regional and local authority level by household type, number of children and amount of cap

• GB and regional level off-flow statistics from the benefit cap by reason for off-flow.

Official statistics publications are released quarterly on Gov.uk and on Stat-Xplore.

https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/benefit-cap-statistics

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