Benefit cap: number of households capped to August 2020

Requirements

National, Official and Experimental Statistics are produced in accordance with the Statistics and Registration Service Act 2007 and the Code of Practice for Statistics (the Code) . This release contains Official and Experimental Statistics on the number of households that have had their benefits capped since the cap was introduced, in April 2013, to August 2020. They are compiled following the standards of trustworthiness, quality, and public value set out within the Code. The statistics are released every 3 months and are sourced from data originally collected via administrative systems. From November 2020 (data to August 2020) data for households capped under HB are taken from DWP HB Caseload Statistics , and data for households capped under UC are taken from DWP UC Quarterly Statistics .