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Is a jobless three-child household getting the same as a worker earning \u00a371,000?published at 16:09 GMT<\/p>\n

16:09 GMT<\/p>\n

Your questions to BBC Verify<\/p>\n

Gerry Georgieva
BBC Verify researcher<\/p>\n

Andy from Exeter got in touch with us to ask if social media reports are true – that a salary of \u00a371,000 per year would be needed to match what a jobless family with three children would get in benefits. <\/p>\n

The figures come from a report by the Centre for Social Justice, external<\/a> (CSJ) think tank. It calculates that, following the lifting of the two-child benefit cap, \u201can out-of-work family with three children receiving the average Universal Credit housing element, health benefits and PIP is projected to take home \u00a346,000 a year by 2026\/2027\u201d. <\/p>\n

Matching that, it says, would require a pre-tax salary of \u00a371,000 per year.<\/p>\n

To come up with that \u00a346,000 figure, which seems plausible, the CSJ has used a specific example and we have tried to work out how many families this could apply to.<\/p>\n

We asked the Department of Work and Pensions but it has not come back with these figures.<\/p>\n

Families with children are subject to a benefit cap, which limits their benefits to around \u00a322,000 a year outside London (and to around \u00a325,000 in London). <\/p>\n

But they can be exempt for a number of reasons, including claiming benefits for a health condition or a disability. <\/p>\n

As of April, external<\/a>, 189,480 households in the UK that were affected by the two child limit, had someone on health or disability benefits. <\/p>\n

Out of those, 67,580 had a member claiming the health element of Universal Credit. We don\u2019t know how many of these also claimed Personal Independence Payments (PIP). <\/p>\n

And we don\u2019t know how much these families claimed in benefits overall each year. <\/p>\n

It\u2019s also worth pointing out that when it comes to the example of someone earning \u00a371,000 there are also specific circumstances attached to this. <\/p>\n

The CSJ clarified that their estimate is for a worker who is repaying a student loan and is auto-enrolled for pension deductions. <\/p>\n

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