Labour should scrap two-child benefit cap sooner rather than later | Larry Elliott

Labour should scrap two-child benefit cap sooner rather than later |  Larry Elliott

Child benefits, Business, Economics, Benefits, Children, Society, UK news, Labour, Poverty, Resolution Foundation, Thinktanks, Tax and spending, Politics Business | The Guardian

​Families cannot afford to wait until UK government says there is money to spare to make such a decisionThe first real test of Labour’s hardline approach to public spending has surfaced within a week of the party taking office – and it is a big one.The issue is child poverty and in particular the two-child benefit limit introduced by the Conservatives in April 2017. This prevents households from claiming universal credit or child tax credit for a third or any subsequent child born after this date. Continue reading… 

Families cannot afford to wait until UK government says there is money to spare to make such a decision

The first real test of Labour’s hardline approach to public spending has surfaced within a week of the party taking office – and it is a big one.

The issue is child poverty and in particular the two-child benefit limit introduced by the Conservatives in April 2017. This prevents households from claiming universal credit or child tax credit for a third or any subsequent child born after this date.

Continue reading… 

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