Question follow-through · 108279
Social Security Benefits
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether the operation of the household benefit cap relies on manual administration; and how many people in his Department work on its administration.
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- Answering body
- Department for Work and Pensions
- Tabled
- 26 Jan 2026
- Target answer date
- 28 Jan 2026
- Answer
- 4 Feb 2026 · 9 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
26 Jan 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether the operation of the household benefit cap relies on manual administration; and how many people in his Department work on its administration.
28 Jan 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
4 Feb 2026
Answer published
The benefit cap is calculated automatically as part of the UC calculation on the UC administrative system and no manual processing is involved. A small number of households (340, as of August 2025) are capped via Housing Benefit (HB). The calculations rel...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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