Select Committee · Work and Pensions Committee
Benefit cap inquiry
Status: Closed
Opened: 9 Dec 2016
Closed: 3 Oct 2019
The Committee invites written submissions addressing the following points: The cap is intended to incentivise behavioural change amongst claimants and secure savings for the Exchequer. To what extent is it achieving that? To what extent has claimant behaviour responded to the cap, through moving into work, moving house etc? What effect does the lower cap …