Charities warn of record child poverty if two-child benefit cap not scrapped

Belfast Telegraph - 22/04
Scrapping the two-child benefit limit is the most cost-effective way to reduce child poverty, charities have argued in a letter to the Prime Minister.

Failing to scrap the limit could put child poverty at its highest level since records began by the end of this parliament, groups including Barnardo’s, Save the Children UK and Citizens Advice warned.

Charities have been ramping up pressure on the Government to ditch the benefits restriction as part of its new child poverty plan.

The strategy is due to be published this spring, although the End Child Poverty Coalition has said it believes the document might not come until June.

The letter urges Sir Keir Starmer to “direct the full weight of your government i...
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