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  Welfare Reform Bill - Clause 93 - Exclusion of Child Benefit from Benefit Cap
  
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  @ MP voted aye not to exclude child benefit from the benefit cap. 
  @ MP voted no to exclude child benefit from the benefit cap. 
  
  The majority of MPs voted not to exclude child benefit from the benefit cap. 
  
  MPs disagreed with Lords amendment 47 which had introduced the proposal. The text the rejected amendment in question was
  
  : Clause 93
  : Page 62, line 19, after âbenefitsâ insert âwith the exclusion of child benefitâ[1]
  
  This would have changed clause 93 (2) in the current bill[2] from:
  
  :For the purposes of this section, applying a benefit cap to welfare benefits means securing that, where a single personâs or coupleâs total entitlement to welfare benefits in respect of the reference period exceeds the relevant amount, their entitlement to welfare benefits in respect of any period of the same duration as the reference period is reduced by an amount up to or equalling the excess.
  
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  :For the purposes of this section, applying a benefit cap to welfare benefits means securing that, where a single personâs or coupleâs total entitlement to welfare benefits in respect of the reference period exceeds the relevant amount, their entitlement to welfare benefits ''with the exclusion of child benefit'' in respect of any period of the same duration as the reference period is reduced by an amount up to or equalling the excess.
  
  
  * [1] [http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/bills/cbill/2010-2012/0302/12302.5-11.html Lords Amendments to the Welfare Reform Bill, webpage 2, containing amendment 47 - 1 February 2012] 
  * [2] [http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/bills/lbill/2010-2012/0075/lbill_2010-20120075_en_1.htm Welfare Reform Bill version HL 75 to which the amendment relates] 
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