The phrase "average working household" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to a typical family or group of individuals who are employed and manage a household.
Example: "The study revealed that the average working household spends a significant portion of its income on housing and utilities."
Alternatives: "typical employed household" or "standard working family".
Mr Osborne can argue that benefits have risen faster than wages over the past few years and so the reduction - based on the average incomes of a working household - is fair.
Set at the average earnings of a UK working household, the cap will mean that people of working age will receive up to a maximum amount, even if their full entitlement is higher.
Adjusted for inflation, average incomes for working households were down 6percentt in September, according to government data released on Friday.
Work and Pensions Secretary Iain Duncan Smith said last week: "The benefit cap sets a clear limit for how much support the welfare state will provide - the average wage for working households.
Apparently that's the average wage earned by working households after tax.
According to the Institute for Fiscal Studies, 8.4m working households will, on average, lose £750 from cuts to in-work support.
That decision will cost working households £1,000 on average in 2020 and the losses could rise to £3,000 for some families, the Resolution Foundation said.
The poor are expected to be hit particularly hard due to the move to universal credit, a policy expected to cost working households £1000 on average by 2020, according to the Resolution Foundation.
The very question over what a workless family has a right to receive from society – the welfare bill proposes "a cap on the total amount of benefit that working-age people can receive so that workless households will no longer receive more in benefit than working households receive in average wages" – seems almost chosen with Malthus's example in mind.
