Spike in number of households earning the maximum amount of benefits after Labour boosted payouts and scrapped two-child cap

Daily Mail - Sep 22, 2026

The number of households on Universal Credit who are subject to the benefit cap increased by 53,000 (48 per cent) between February and May this year.

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