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Originally Posted by peanut
So those too ill to work will get more than 1%.
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DLA is not counted as income for benefits, so they won't hit the ceiling of I.S. because of it.
ESA is, and I can't find a concrete answer to whether they are stuck with 1% from April or not.
Incidentally the benefits cap reported as not including those on DLA, but elsewhere I have seen it reported as those
CHILDREN on DLA.
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The cap will apply to the total amount that the people in your household get from the following benefits:
Bereavement Allowance
Carer’s Allowance
Child Benefit
Child Tax Credit
Employment and Support Allowance (unless you get the support component)
Guardian’s Allowance
Housing Benefit
Incapacity Benefit
Income Support
Jobseeker’s Allowance
Maternity Allowance
Severe Disablement Allowance
Widowed Parent’s Allowance (or Widowed Mother’s Allowance or Widows Pension you started getting before 9 April 2001)
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The level of the cap will be:
£500 a week for couples (with or without children living with them)
£500 a week for single parents whose children live with them
£350 a week for single adults who don’t have children, or whose children don’t live with them
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Who won’t be affected?
You won’t be affected by the benefit cap if you qualify for Working Tax Credit, or if you get any of the following benefits:
Disability Living Allowance
Personal Independence Payment (from April 2013)
Attendance Allowance
Industrial Injuries Benefits (and equivalent payments as part of a war disablement pension or the Armed Forces Compensation Scheme)
Employment and Support Allowance, if you get the support component
War Widow’s or War Widower’s Pension
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https://www.gov.uk/benefit-cap