This note is intended for frontline staff and managers within Council services and partner organisations, who may be supporting or likely to support Manchester households due to be affected by changes to the Benefit Cap. This note provides background information and sources of support to assist staff.
The Benefit Cap was one of the Coalition Government’s welfare reform measures within the Welfare Reform Act 2012. The stated aims of the Benefit Cap were to:
• increase incentives to work;
• introduce greater fairness into the welfare system between those on out-of-work benefits and taxpayers in employment; and
• make financial savings and incentivise behaviours that reduce long-term dependency on benefits
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