Two-child benefit cap to be scrapped from next year

"did "not believe that the solution to a broken welfare system is to punish the most vulnerable children""

""strikes the right balance between supporting people who are struggling and protecting taxpayers who are struggling themselves""

""They are hiking taxes on workers, pensioners and savers to pay for handouts to keep their backbenchers quiet.""

""[The Conservatives] said they were punishing parents' choices but it's kids who have paid the price for the policies of a party which opted for cynical gimmicks over real savings in the welfare system,""

The two-child benefit cap will be scrapped from next April, removing the restriction that limited universal credit and tax credits to the first two children. The change is projected to cost about £3bn a year by 2029–30 and is estimated to lift around 450,000 children out of poverty by 2029–30. The cap does not affect child benefit eligibility. Conservatives criticised the removal as an unfair burden on taxpayers and argued benefit recipients should face similar financial choices about family size. Child poverty campaigners and Labour MPs welcomed the decision as a cost-effective way to reduce child poverty.

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