At least 197,000 children have been hit by the lower benefit cap since it was introduced in November last year. The cap was lowered from £26,000 nationally to £23,000 in London and £20,000 elsewhere in November 2016. Government statistics analysed by the Children’s Society show a sharp increase in the number of households capped, 93 per cent of which are households with children. Chief executive Matthew Reed said: “It is deeply worrying to see that hundreds of thousands of children have been hit by the new benefit cap, cutting the money needed to keep a roof over their heads. Our concern is that this will only worsen child poverty, which is already set to balloon to five million by the end of the decade.”
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