{"id":2961,"date":"2014-01-17T13:48:19","date_gmt":"2014-01-17T13:48:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vanel.org.uk\/va\/?p=2961"},"modified":"2014-01-17T13:48:19","modified_gmt":"2014-01-17T13:48:19","slug":"some-figures-relating-to-the-benefit-cap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/vanel.org.uk\/va\/2014\/01\/some-figures-relating-to-the-benefit-cap\/","title":{"rendered":"Some figures relating to the Benefit Cap"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Some latest news and figures relating to the Benefit Cap.<\/strong><br \/>\nMay be of interest to some groups, both in their day to day work or in relation to services that might need to be offered.<\/p>\n<p>Read the government report here:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/uploads\/system\/uploads\/attachment_data\/file\/270159\/benefit-cap-nov-2013.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/uploads\/system\/uploads\/attachment_data\/file\/270159\/benefit-cap-nov-2013.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n<p>In summary:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Just over 27 thousand households had their housing benefit capped.<\/li>\n<li>59% of households had between 1 and 4 children and 39% had 5 or more children.<\/li>\n<li>59% of households constituted a single parent with child dependants.<\/li>\n<li>77% of households were capped by \u00a3100 or less.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Please also see information in this link from DWP:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.lookinglocal.gov.uk\/site\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.lookinglocal.gov.uk\/site\/<\/a><\/p>\n<!--themify_builder_content-->\n<div id=\"themify_builder_content-2961\" data-postid=\"2961\" class=\"themify_builder_content themify_builder_content-2961 themify_builder tf_clear\">\n    <\/div>\n<!--\/themify_builder_content-->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some figures and documentation relating to the latest position on the national benefit cap.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"xn-wppe-expiration":[],"xn-wppe-expiration-action":[],"xn-wppe-expiration-prefix":[],"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[128],"tags":[129],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3cThd-LL","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/vanel.org.uk\/va\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2961"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/vanel.org.uk\/va\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/vanel.org.uk\/va\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vanel.org.uk\/va\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vanel.org.uk\/va\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2961"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/vanel.org.uk\/va\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2961\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2962,"href":"http:\/\/vanel.org.uk\/va\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2961\/revisions\/2962"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/vanel.org.uk\/va\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vanel.org.uk\/va\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vanel.org.uk\/va\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}