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Social Security Benefits

Question for Department for Work and Pensions

UIN 27503, tabled on 29 June 2022

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, when she last reviewed the benefit cap.

Answered on

4 July 2022

This answer is a correction from the original answer.

There is a statutory duty to review the levels every 5 years . The last time the Benefit cap was reviewed was November 2016.

Original answer

There is a statutory duty to review the levels every Parliament. The last time the Benefit cap was reviewed was November 2016.

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