MPs in the House of Commons yesterday (1 February) overturned a total of seven defeats inflicted on the government’s Welfare Reform Bill in the Lords, including plans to cap total household benefits to £26,000 a year.
Ministers will use the rule of "financial privilege", based on a resolution from 1671, to ensure the bill passes through parliament.
It will mean Lords cannot send the same amendments back to the Commons when they debate the bill for the final time.
Clauses overturned by MPs included excluding child benefit from the overall benefit cap, not charging single parents for use of the Child Support Agency if they've taken steps to reach a settlement and allowing young disabled people who have never worked to keep claiming "contributory" employment and support allowance.
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