Benefit Cap Report Northern Ireland - April 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 £26,000 per annum. On 7 November 2016, this threshold was lowered to £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 £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