Official Statistics

Benefit cap: number of households capped to August 2023

Statistics on households that have had their benefits capped between 15 April 2013 and August 2023.

From:
Department for Work and Pensions
Published
12 December 2023
Last updated
20 December 2023 — See all updates

Applies to England and Wales

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Benefit cap: number of households capped to August 2023

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The latest release of these statistics can be found in the collection of benefit cap statistics.

These Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) quarterly publications provide statistics on households affected by the benefit cap and include:

  • cumulative and point-in-time numbers of households capped
  • number of households that were previously capped but have moved off the cap
Published 12 December 2023
Last updated 20 December 2023 + show all updates

  1. Corrected 2 dates in the main stories section — '77,000 households were capped on UC at May 2023' and '6,400 households were capped on HB at May 2023' have been both been updated to correctly read 'at August 2023'. No other changes have been made.

  2. First published.

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