Benefits and support The benefit cap

Benefit cap rates before April 2023

These rates were set in November 2016 and did not change until April 2023:

  • £384.62 a week for couples (with or without children)
  • £384.62 a week for single parents whose children live with them
  • £257.69 a week for single adults who don’t have children, or whose children don’t live with them.
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