How The Benefit Changes Work
Updated: 8:36am UK, Monday 15 July 2013
The coalition is pushing through radical changes to the welfare system in a bid to slash the benefits bill and make it pay to work. Here is a full breakdown:
Benefit cap
:: A cap on the total amount of benefit people aged 16-64 can receive
:: Limited to £500 per week for a family and £350 per week for a single person
:: Some 56,000 households affected
:: Average loss of £93 per week
Housing Benefit
:: Cuts for people living in council or housing association properties if they have more bedrooms than they need
:: Those with one spare bedroom will have their benefit cut by 14%
:: Households with more than one spare bedroom will lose 25%
:: An estimated 660,000 claimants affected
:: Average loss of £14 per week
:: Introduced April 1
Council Tax Benefit
:: Current schemes scrapped and replaced by Local Council Tax Support
:: Government funding for new schemes reduced by 10%
:: Average loss of £2.64 per week
:: Some 3.1 million households affected
:: Rolled out from April 1
Disability Living Allowance
:: Replaced from April 8
:: New benefit called the Personal Independence Payment (PIP) introduced
:: New system includes face-to-face assessments and regular reviews
Universal Credit
:: A single monthly payment of benefits
:: Replace means-tested benefits including Income Support, income-based Job Seekers Allowance, income-related Employment and Support Allowance, Housing Benefit, Child Tax Credit, Working Tax Credit
:: Rolled out from October
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