{"id":563281,"date":"2026-05-03T01:10:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-03T01:10:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/563281\/"},"modified":"2026-05-03T01:10:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-03T01:10:09","slug":"tories-pledge-to-tighten-household-benefit-cap-rules","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/563281\/","title":{"rendered":"Tories pledge to tighten household benefit cap rules"},"content":{"rendered":"

The party said its proposals would deliver at least \u00a31bn of savings annually.<\/p>\n

Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch said the plans would “stop those who abuse the system getting almost unlimited welfare payments”.<\/p>\n

A total of 111,000 households in Great Britain are affected by the cap, according to the latest government figures, external<\/a>.<\/p>\n

However, the Tories said more than 2.3 million households were claiming benefits above the cap due to exemptions, including work.<\/p>\n

The level of the cap, external<\/a> depends on whether someone lives in or outside Greater London, whether they are single or part of a couple, and whether someone has children.<\/p>\n

For example, for a couple living outside Greater London, the cap is \u00a31,835 per month.<\/p>\n

The measure was introduced under the Conservative-Liberal Democrat coalition in 2013, with the aim of increasing the incentive to work and reducing long-term dependency on benefits.<\/p>\n

However, critics argue that limiting the amount part-time, low-income or out-of-work households can receive in benefits traps families in poverty. <\/p>\n

While the cap also applies in Northern Ireland, there is a system of supplementary payments to mitigate the impact on families with children.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The party said its proposals would deliver at least \u00a31bn of savings annually. Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch said…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":563282,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-563281","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/563281","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=563281"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/563281\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/563282"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=563281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=563281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=563281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}