Benefit Cap: Is It Persuading More People To Get A Job?

The work and pensions secretary Iain Duncan Smith says he believes the cap is working. But the polling on which he based his assertion offers no clear evidence that it has had any effect. To accompany the roll-out of the benefit cap on Monday morning, the work and pensions secretary Iain Duncan Smith gave an interview on the BBC Today programme in which he claimed that the policy was working because the threat of being hit by the cap had persuaded more people to move off benefits and into a job. But is he right? Read more on the Guardian website.