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The benefit cap places a limit on the total amount of benefits that out of work households can receive. It is set at:

• 拢500 a week for couples (with or without children living with them) and lone parents whose children live with them
• 拢350 a week for single adults who don鈥檛 have children, or whose children don鈥檛 live with them.

The cap was introduced in a phased roll-out from April 2013.

For this research, Ipsos MORI surveyed 1,200 claimants who were affected by the cap. They conducted interviews by phone between 7 and 26 February 2014.

The survey forms part of DWP鈥檚 evaluation of the benefit cap.