Official Statistics

Benefit cap: number of households capped to August 2025

Statistics on households that have had their benefits capped between 15 April 2013 and August 2025.

• From: Department for Work and Pensions
• Published: 16 December 2025

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Benefit cap: number of households capped to August 2025

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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 16 December 2025