Sentence examples for cap on benefits from inspiring English sources
The biggest changes relate to the state time limit, the 21-month cap on benefits that was one of the shortest in the nation when it was instituted in 1995.
Those measures are the introduction of (deep breath) the "bedroom tax", Personal Independence Payments to replace disability benefits, Universal Credit, cuts to council tax support, a cap on benefits, a freeze on benefit increases at one percent (i.e. less than the cost of living), cuts to legal aid and a "granny tax".
So, for the first time a cap on benefits.
As a political "trap" for Labour, the cap on benefits is to be fixed in law.
The cap on benefits and the bedroom tax will have disastrous effects for people.
* New £500-a-week cap on welfare benefits to hit big families.
Miliband said that the government should abandon the 1% cap on welfare benefits and instead cap tax relief on pension contributions at £26,000 instead.
2.56pm GMT The welfare benefits uprating bill, the one imposing a 1% cap on benefit increases for the next three years, is back in the Commons this afternoon, where MPs will deal with all its remaining stages before winding up at 10pm.
3.26pm GMT Love turns to the 1% cap on benefit increases.
He mentions the cap on benefit payments announced by George Osborne yesterday as an example of this.
