Stat-Xplore: Benefit Cap

Time

2013 - On-going (Monthly)

Dataset Quality

Known Issues from Stat-Xplore: Figures may not include very short term capped households. This will occur in instances where a household is capped and then ceases to be capped all within the space of a monthly SHBE return. In any such cases, the recorded SHBE data will not flag that a household has been capped. In the unlikely event that a Local Authority does not return their housing benefit scan to DWP in time, when SHBE is processed the benefit cap status of households within that Local Authority is taken from the previous months extract. The overall impact of this is expected to be small.

DWP admin systems

Dataset Access and Use

Data fully accessible via the DWP's Stat-Xplore online service but (free) registration is required to fully access the service.

Geography

Smallest geography varies between benefits. Cells subject to random adjustment, and small values suppressed.