The benefit cap will deprive poor Brits of £65 a week as inflation skyrockets.
The Child Poverty Action Group has warned of a “growing gulf” between the cap and benefit rates and the cost of living. The £20,000 limit on each household’s welfare payments - £23,000 in London - has not changed since 2016 despite soaring prices, reports The Mirror.
It 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%. If the cap does not change, more than 100,000 households will not get an extra penny from the long-awaited uprating in April.
