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Mum of Two 'Just Surviving' After Budget Pushes Disabled Families 'to the Side'
The Budget ends the two-child benefit cap but leaves disabled families facing uncertainty over Universal Credit health element restrictions and unmet high costs, research shows 40% struggle.
- On November 26, Chancellor Rachel Reeves announced scrapping the two-child benefit cap, expected to lift 450,000 children from poverty, with Prime Minister Keir Starmer calling it a `failed social experiment`.
- Sense and campaigners note that disabled families were exempt from the two-child cap yet still face higher poverty and unavoidable costs like hoists and specialist diets.
- In the West Midlands, Lorraine Griffin, mother and full-time carer, depends on Universal Credit and Carer's Allowance as her autistic sons Ben, 13, and Sam, 14, face traumatic, financially strained daily life.
- Sense warned that scrapping the cap is welcome but urged the Government to rule out cuts to the Universal Credit health element for young people, as disabled families face poverty risks.
- In April 2026, all Universal Credit claimants will receive an above-inflation boost of around 6.2 per cent, while most benefits rise by 3.8 per cent and the benefit cap and local housing allowance remain frozen.
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Labour MP tells GB News benefit claimants WON'T be encouraged to have more children after two-child cap axed
People on benefits will not be incentivised to have more children after Rachel Reeves scrapped the two-child benefits cap, a Labour MP has claimed.Gordon McKee, MP for South Glasgow, said the Chancellor's decision to lift the cap 16 months after seven of his colleagues were suspended for backing it was part of the Government's "moral mission".He was speaking to Chopper's Political Podcast after posting a video using custard creams and bourbon bi…
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