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House of Commons library briefing on benefit cap and proposed reduction to £23,000

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New briefing explains how the cap operates and considers evidence of its impact to date before going on to consider the proposal to reduce the cap from £26,000 to £23,000 per year and the potential impact of this on claimants -

http://researchbriefings.parliament.uk/ResearchBriefing/Summary/SN06294

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Am I right in thinking that there are no proposals to lower the £350 p/w part of the Cap for single people? I haven’t noticed any mention of this aspect anywhere.

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Billy Durrant - 01 July 2015 08:41 AM

Am I right in thinking that there are no proposals to lower the £350 p/w part of the Cap for single people? I haven’t noticed any mention of this aspect anywhere.

Maybe the reduction is an inherent assumed proportional one?

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The figures appear separately in the uprating tables but I’d guess that there will be a rounded proportional reduction for single people as well.