Hit by the household benefit cap: Forcing people to live on less than they need

While much focus is on the two-child benefit cap. We reveal how it is a cap on household benefits which is just as cruel.

Sophie hadn’t even heard of the household benefit cap when it hit her. But then she knew.

The 28-year-old from Blackpool had worked since she was 16, as a special needs teacher in a primary school and then as a carer.

She was living with her son, now four, and her youngest sister, to whom she was a guardian. She was working four days a week and receiving …