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Total number of households with housing benefit cap per 1,000 households (3505) Metric type
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- Proportion of households with housing benefit cap - Point in time caseload.
Rate is of working age households.
Description:
Benefit cap statistics are derived from the Single Housing Benefit Extract (SHBE). SHBE is a monthly electronic scan of claimant level data compiled from monthly returns of housing benefit claimants from each individual local authority. From April 2013, a Benefit Cap field was added to SHBE which provides the weekly amount that the Housing Benefit of a household has been capped by.
Point in time figures show the number of households subject to the cap each month since the introduction of the benefit cap to the latest month available.
Recording and clerical errors can occur within SHBE - for this reason, no reliance should be placed on very small numbers obtained through Stat-Xplore.
Statistical disclosure control has been applied with Stat-Xplore, which guards against the identification of an individual claimant.
Figures may not include very short term capped households. This will occur in instances where a household is capped and then ceases to be capped all within the space of monthly SHBE returns. In any such cases, the recorded SHBE data will not flag that a household has been capped.
In the unlikely event that a Local Authority does not return their housing benefit scan to DWP in time, when SHBE is processed the benefit cap status of households within that Local Authority is taken from the previous months extract. The overall impact of this is expected to be small.
- Modified
- 12 Apr 2023
- Data last updated
- 20 Mar 2024
- Short label
- Households with housing benefit cap per 1,000 households
- Status
- Live
- Output precision
- 1
- Polarity
- not applicable
- Measure
- Rate per 1,000 Households
- Dataset
- Benefit Cap Statistics
- Collection
- Stat-Xplore: Benefit Cap Statistics
- Source
- Department for Work and Pensions
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