Imposing a cap on benefits as an incentive to get them to go to work instead is a ‘fallacy’ which is causing young children to go hungry, a poverty campaign group has claimed, after new research has discovered hundreds of families in Bristol who are subject to the benefits cap can’t work anyway.
And scores more families in Bristol who are having their benefits capped are in work anyway - but are so poorly paid they don’t earn enough to be exempt from it.
The Child Poverty Action Group said its new research from Government figures has ‘debunked’ the reasons ministers have always given for imposing a cap on benefits - that it will persuade people to get a job instead - because almost half the people it applies to have already been assessed as not able to work, because they are looking after young children.
