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Social Security Benefits: Unemployment

Asked by Helen WhatelyConservativeDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled Answered 12 December 2025UIN 96710

The question

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what analysis his Department has done on the increase in households that off-flowed from the benefits cap as a result of the increase in unemployment over the past 13 months, in the context of the 9-mon

Answered by Sir Stephen Timms

No such analysis has been undertaken.

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