More than 12,000 households have taken up jobs or stopped
claiming Housing Benefit after being subjected to the benefit cap, the DWP has
said. The households are among 51,200 which have had their benefits capped - at
£500-a-week for couples or single parents and £350-a-week for childless single
adults - since its introduction in England, Scotland and Wales in 2013. More
than half of the cases involve reductions in weekly benefits of less than £50 a
household. But the DWP said "a few" who were claiming as much as
£57,000 in benefits - the equivalent of a salary of £74,000 - had lost up to
£600 a week. It is not possible to say
whether all of the individuals who found work or stopped claiming Housing
Benefit did so because of the imposition of the cap, but Iain Duncan Smith said
that the figures suggested the policy was succeeding in encouraging claimants
to change their behaviour. Read more on the Daily Mail website.
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