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 …