Social Security Benefits: Carers

(asked on 17th December 2018) - View Source

Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many kinship carers were affected by the benefit cap of (a) £20,000 and (b) £23,000 in 2017-18.


Answered by
Justin Tomlinson Portrait
Justin Tomlinson
Minister of State (Department for Energy Security and Net Zero)
This question was answered on 20th December 2018

The Department does not hold data which would allow us to identify capped households under Housing Benefit or Universal Credit, who are kinship carers.

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