We were promised destitution and other horrors but...
Between April 2013 and August 2014, 51,200 households had their housing benefit capped, according to a Department for Work and Pensions statistical release yesterday. This number had dropped to 27,200 households by August 2014. Forty per cent of those no longer subject to the cap – 9,600 households – are exempt with an open Working Tax Credit.
Unpiggle the language and this is telling us that we capped the benefits and, lo, the people having that cap imposed went and got jobs. Well I never!
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Post hoc ergo propter hoc?
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