US EditionMinisters considering scrapping two-child benefit cap, education secretary says
- Labour ministers, including Education Secretary Bridget Phillipson, have confirmed they are considering scrapping the two-child benefit cap introduced in 2017 by the previous Conservative government.
- This policy limits benefit payments to families for only two children, and pressure to remove it has grown amid delayed child poverty strategy announcements and calls from charities.
- Phillipson noted the policy pulls more than 100 children into poverty daily and emphasized that removing the cap forms part of a wider strategy to reduce child poverty despite high costs.
- She stated that the option remains under consideration and admitted that reversing the decision presents significant challenges, requires substantial funding, and must be handled carefully.
- The government views cutting child poverty as a moral mission and aims to ensure background does not determine a child's success, while balancing fiscal responsibility and policy costs.
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How the weather changed on the “cruel” two-child benefit cap
Labour is in the middle of a slow-motion U-turn on the two-child benefit cap. Our political editor, Andrew Marr, revealed on last week’s episode of the New Statesman podcast that it was Keir Starmer’s “priority” to reverse the George Osborne-era cut to benefits for third-born children, and there have been similar reports over the bank holiday weekend. The government’s child poverty taskforce, which was supposed to report in the spring – ahead of…
Ministers edging closer to scrapping two-child benefit cap
The government is poised to backtrack on its refusal to scrap the two-child benefit limit, sources have suggested.Ministers are edging closer to ditching the two-child cap, which is unpopular among Labour MPs, although it has not yet been decided whether there will be a watered down version of the policy to replace it.And a cabinet minister on Tuesday gave the strongest hint yet that the Prime Minister was open to scrapping the benefit limit alt…
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