Official Statistics

Benefit cap: number of households capped to February 2022

Statistics on households that have had their benefits capped between 15 April 2013 and February 2022.

• From: Department for Work and Pensions
• Published: 21 June 2022
• Last updated: 27 July 2022 — See all updates

Applies to England, Scotland and Wales

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The latest release of these statistics can be found in the collection of benefit cap statistics.

This Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) publication shows the number of households that had their Housing Benefit capped from 15 April 2013 to February 2022.

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Read the background information and methodology publication for more information about the benefit cap statistics.

Published 21 June 2022
Last updated 27 July 2022 + show all updates

1. 27 July 2022

   Edited section 2 (the number of capped households in GB) - the historical figure which details the number of newly capped households at April 2020 has been revised from 52,000 to 51,000. Also in section 2, a historical figure showed the number of off-flows from the HB cap to have increased at the quarter to August 2016 to 12,000 households, however this should have been at the quarter to May 2017. This has been corrected. This also affected the accompanying timeseries of the number of households that have flowed off the UC and HB cap from November 2013 to February 2022. The timeseries has now been updated. Also edited section 3 (characteristics of capped households) - the reported proportion of single-parent households for November 2021 has been revised from 65% to 66%.

2. 21 June 2022

   First published.