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Couples benefit cap has been reduced from £26,000 to £18,000 in Universal Credit
I’ve just finished off the 2014 version of our Future Benefits Model (FFBM) and sat back to watch yesterday’s Work & Pensions Question Time. Lots of raising again the spectre of a cut in the benefits cap from £26K to £20K. I’ve written a lot about this in the past and published a set of tables for every area in Britain showing the effects of such a cut.
They’ve now done it for childless couples in Universal Credit!
The regulations haven’t been amended yet but the benefits rates for 2014 / 2015 have moved such couples into the lower £350 a week band.
See the details and some thoughts on whether it’s a drafting error at my blog at http://blog.cix.co.uk/gmorgan
One of our London team queried this, and the reply from DWP was as follows.
‘Thank you for spotting this error. We can confirm this is a typological error and not a policy change. We will correct this mistake at the earliest opportunity.’
Impresssively detailed typographical error…
Jon
We can confirm this is a typological error
Did they actually say typological? I think that means the current state predicts the future, in theological terms. Hmm?
Ha! Didn’t even spot that, just automatically read it as ‘typographical’ and copied and pasted it straight into my post.
We can confirm this is a typological error
Did they actually say typological? I think that means the current state predicts the future, in theological terms. Hmm?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Typology_(disambiguation) (sorry link doesn’t work as it leaves out the last “)”).
Unless we mean teleological?
[ Edited: 21 Jan 2014 at 04:00 pm by Martin Williams ]nice work guys ... ... here’s steve webb’s ministerial statement acknowledging and correcting the error -