Voters support calls for two-child benefit limit to be scrapped
It comes amid calls from former Prime Minister Gordon Brown as well as the Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby, to scrap the two-child benefit limit
It comes amid calls from former Prime Minister Gordon Brown as well as the Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby, to scrap the two-child benefit limit
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Brown made the call to scrap the two-child benefit cap during an interview on BBC Radio 4’s Today programme, where he also said that the policy was misunderstood.
A nation’s wealth and greatness is not measured by the number of billionaires but by how well it takes care of its children and weakest members
The motion expresses ‘incredulity’ that the government hasn’t assessed correlations between the two-child limit and child poverty levels
‘We need to end the postcode lottery in Free School Meals now.’
Ending the two-child benefit cap would lift 250,000 children out of poverty, and lessen the effects of poverty on a further 850,000, according to the Child Poverty Action Group.
It comes as the government’s own data yesterday revealed that the number of children living in poverty across the UK has hit a record high
The latest figures have caused outrage and condemnation among child poverty charities.
Around six million people were in very deep poverty in 2021-22 – 1.5 million more than 20 years ago