Some of the UK's poorest families will be deprived of £65 extra a week as inflation bites, a damning report has claimed.
The Child Poverty Action Group has branded the benefit cap, which puts a £20,000 limit on each household’s welfare payments as “cruel and catastrophic”, and pointed out it has not changed since 2016 despite soaring prices.
The action group has warned of a “growing gulf” between the cap and benefit rates and the cost of living and said axing the cap would give an average £65 a week extra to those hit from April, when benefits are expected to rise around 10%, according to The Mirror. If the cap does not change, more than 100,000 households will not get an extra penny from the long-awaited uprating in April.
