Over 36,400 households have been caught by the coalition government's benefits cap since April 2013, 96 per cent of them households with children, according to new official statistics.
The benefit cap limits the amount of benefits a household can receive to £500 a week for couples (with or without children) and lone-parent households, and to £350 a week for a single adult with no children.
The coalition government highlights the fact that over 8,000 households who have had their benefits capped have since either found jobs, reduced their benefit claim, or had another change of circumstance – with 40 per cent of these finding work.
Source: Benefit Cap – Households Capped and off Flows, Data to December 2013, GB, Department for Work and Pensions
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