US EditionStarmer says government 'will look at' scrapping two-child benefits limit
- On 1 June 2025, Labour leader Keir Starmer indicated his government will consider removing the two-child benefit cap in the UK to reduce child poverty.
- The two-child limit on tax credits, implemented by the Conservative government starting in 2017, restricts financial support to just the first two children and impacts around 1.6 million children, sparking controversy over its fairness.
- Critics argue the cap increases child poverty, with estimates that scrapping it could lift 470,000 children out of poverty but cost £33.5 billion, while supporters defend it as fiscally fair.
- Starmer stated, “We hear them & We want to make this change happen,” and highlighted the government’s moral mission to lower child poverty amid ongoing parliamentary discussions.
- This potential policy shift reflects Labour’s search for solutions to child poverty but raises fiscal concerns and political tensions between parties defending or opposing the cap.
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DWP child benefit cap 'tweak' could make UK households £4,300 better off - Birmingham Live
Sir Keir Starmer told a press conference on Thursday that he was looking at “all options” to drive down child poverty when asked if he would like to get rid of the two-child benefit cap.
Lifting the 2 child benefit cap for all families is not fair on taxpayers
Alamy AS KING Canute found over a thousand years ago, it is quite difficult to stand on a beach and order the tide to recede. Today, it is equally difficult to make the argument that giving families cash is not always the best way of lifting them out of poverty. APKeir Starmer is under massive pressure form Labour backbench MPs to lift the 2 child benefit cap and go on a new welfare spending spree[/caption] This is especially true when one par…
Plans to lift 2-child benefit cap will land UK's jobless families with windfalls
THE UK’s biggest jobless families could receive a windfall of £3.5billion funded by the taxpayer if plans to lift the two-child benefit cap go ahead. Since 2017, parents have only been able to claim child tax credit and universal credit for their first two children, if they were born after April 2017. GettySir Keir Starmer dropped his strongest hint yet that the two-child benefit cap will be abolished earlier this week[/caption] AlamyNigel Farag…
Lifting the two-child benefit cap is potty in a country where millions can’t even have one - Colin Brazier
A senior adviser to the Nigel Farage team texted me this week. He wanted to know what I, as someone who once wrote a book lamenting Britain’s falling birth-rate, thought of the family policies just announced by the Reform leader?It was, I volunteered, a big moment. Five months ago, I wrote a piece for GB News in which I laid out how Reform might pitch itself as an unapologetically pro-natal party. From Italy to Hungary, populists on the Right in…
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