Social Security Benefits

(asked on 14th May 2020) - View Source

Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask Her Majesty's Government what would the levels of the benefit cap be if they represented the same percentage of average earnings as they did when introduced in 2016; and what would be the cost of raising the cap to those levels.


Answered by
Baroness Stedman-Scott Portrait
Baroness Stedman-Scott
Opposition Whip (Lords)
This question was answered on 2nd June 2020

The information requested is not readily available and to provide it would incur disproportionate costs.

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