Benefit Cap Report Northern Ireland - July 2019
The Benefit Cap is a limit on the total amount of benefit that working-age people can receive. From 31 May 2016, the amount a household could receive in benefit income was limited to 拢26,000 per annum. On 7 November 2016, this threshold was lowered to 拢20,000 per annum.
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The report inlcudes statistics on the point-in-time and the cumulative capped households for November to January. This is then broken down to LGD and AA. The family make-up of capped households is analysed by number of children per capped household, as well as the age of youngest children. The financial impact of being capped is broken down to 拢10 bandings, and illustrates the number of households at each band. This is the weekly loss to a household. The number of households moving off the cap is also stated in the report, which includes reasons for the off-flows