Social Security Benefits
(asked on 21st March 2019) - View Source
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask Her Majesty's Government what was the sample size used to inform the design of the benefit cap policy.
This question was answered on 3rd April 2019
The rationale behind the benefit cap policy is set out in the Impact Assessment, which supported the Welfare Reform and Work Act 2016. The final update was published in August 2016 and is attached.
DWP and HMRC administrative data was used to inform the design of the benefit cap policy, and sample data was not used.