Charity warns 120,000 households on benefit cap will not see payments increase with annual uprating next April
New analysis for the Child Action Poverty Group suggests that households whose benefits are capped will be left on average £65 a week worse off from April than they would be without a cap in place.
CPAG also said 35,000 claimants due to be newly capped in April will only see some of the increase before the cap kicks in. It said removing the cap would mean an additional £65 a week, on average, for affected households, which it said would be “invaluable” in the current economic climate. “It is early days for the new Government and scrapping the cap would send a clear signal to families that the PM is on their side - there can be no doubt that leaving it in place will damage the lives of children up and down the country.”
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