Putting the cap on it

Amid claim and counter-claim the benefit cap began this week with a deepening mystery about how many people will be affected and how much it will really save.

As the four guinea pig boroughs in London – Haringey, Croydon, Enfield and Bromley – began applying the cap on Monday, the Department for Work and Pensions revealed in ad hoc analysis that it now expects 16,000 fewer households to be affected by the time when it is introduced in the whole country over the next few months.

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