The benefits cap should be lowered by 10 per cent for
people living outside London and the South East to reflect the lower cost of
living outside of those areas, a think-tank has proposed. Policy Exchange said
lowering the limit to £23,400 for those living in the rest of the UK could save
the UK Government £100 million a year. The right-leaning think tank, with close
links to the Conservative Party, will spell out the plans in full in a major
piece of research examining how a future government could find further savings
in the welfare budget to be published later this month. The Policy Exchange
paper will also say that child benefit should be capped at four children and
payments progressively reduced after the first child. It says the collective
benefit changes would lead to savings of £1 billion by 2020. Read more on the
Policy Exchange website.
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