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Almost 1.7m Children in Households Caught up in Two-Child Benefit Cap

UNITED KINGDOM, JUL 10 – The two-child benefit cap affects 469,780 households and 1.6 million children, with critics urging its removal to address rising child poverty in the UK.

  • On Thursday, new data revealed that almost 1.7 million children in Great Britain live in households impacted by the policy limiting child benefits to two children.
  • The Conservative government introduced this two-child limit in 2017 to restrict child tax credit and Universal Credit payments to two children per household.
  • The data reveals a 3% increase in affected households over the past year, with 469,780 Universal Credit claimants impacted and ethnic minorities disproportionately affected by poverty.
  • Campaigners call the policy a "child poverty machine" that costs society more long-term, while Labour pledges to abolish the two-child limit at an estimated £1.4 billion annual cost.
  • A taskforce addressing child poverty has been set up and is scheduled to deliver its findings in autumn, while campaigners emphasize that removing the two-child benefit limit is crucial to tackling the increasing levels of child poverty.
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Almost 1.7m children in households caught up in two-child benefit cap

More than half (59%) of households affected by the policy are in work, the data showed.

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Kent Online broke the news in Kent, United Kingdom on Thursday, July 10, 2025.
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