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DAVID CAMERON’S first Cabinet meeting of the new government vowed yesterday to further lower the notorious “welfare cap” that forces an arbitrary limit on how much a family can claim.
A law cutting the household limit to £23,000 from £26,000 will be formulated within weeks as the Tories go full-speed ahead on plans to demolish the social security safety net.
The original cap was supposed to limit benefit payments to the median British income.
But the income cited was for individuals while the cap was imposed on entire families, regardless of size or the cost of local housing.
