Only a ‘small number’ of tenants hit by the benefit cap
have responded by moving house, a think tank report has said. Analysis of
benefit cap numbers released by the DWP by the Institute for Fiscal Studies
(IFS) said how claimants were adjusting ‘remained an open question’. It found
evidence of moving house only among ‘the small number of claimants who lost
particularly large amounts of benefit income as a result of the cap’. Among
those who lost more than £200, 14% of those capped in May 2010 and 20% of those
capped in May 2013 moved within a year. For the rest, the level of moves was
around 11%. Read more on the IFS website.
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