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<p>Households can have their benefits capped either under Housing Benefit, or under
Universal Credit. The latest statistics were published in February 2019, covering
households capped to November 2018.</p><p> </p><p>Under Housing Benefit, statistics
on the number of households capped in the geographical areas requested by banded,
weekly cap amount, is published and available at:</p><p><a href="https://stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk"
target="_blank">https://stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk</a> (‘Benefit Cap’, ‘Point in Time
caseload’ table). Guidance for users is available at:</p><p><a href="https://sw.stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/webapi/online-help/Getting-Started.html"
target="_blank">https://sw.stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/webapi/online-help/Getting-Started.html</a></p><p>
</p><p>Under Universal Credit, statistics on the number of households capped by banded,
weekly cap amount can be found in the February 2019 official statistics release (Table
9, <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/benefit-cap-number-of-households-capped-to-november-2018"
target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/benefit-cap-number-of-households-capped-to-november-2018</a>).</p><p><strong>
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