Since the cap was introduced a year ago, more than 38,600 households have had the amount they are paid in benefits limited to £26,000 a year – the income of the average working family.
Despite predictions by critics that the new rule would cause misery, the poll – conducted by Ipsos Mori – found that 45 per cent of those affected say they have been spurred to return to work.
Benefits for couples and lone parents have been capped at £500 per week, or £350 for a single. childless person.
The £26,000-a-year cap is equivalent to an income of £34,000 before tax, which is similar to the salaries of many nurses and teachers.
Cheryl Prudham, her husband Robert and their nine children are going on a trip to Menorca, just weeks after the mum said she should be given a bigger house at the expense of the taxpayer.
HT: Daily Mail – their photos above are a little bit too focused on ethnic minorities. The Daily Mail’s audience is the working class Tory and the lower middle class.
Utopia, you are standing in it! 
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