Observatoire des droits humains (anglais seulement)

Our research shows the harm the two-child limit on benefits is doing. Only scrapping it can end this

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par Kate Andersen, Research Fellow, School for Business and Society, University of York
Kitty Stewart, Professor, Department of Social Policy, London School of Economics and Political Science

Since the UK Labour government took office in summer 2024, calls have intensified to scrap both the “two-child limit” – which restricts support for children through universal credit to two children – and the overall benefit cap. With Chancellor Rachel Reeves resisting this pressure as she tries to manage deteriorating public finances, ways of tweaking the two-child limit policy have been proposed.

But as researchers of child poverty, we have no doubt that the best place to start reducing the high and rising numbers of children growing up in poverty in Britain today is by fully abolishing…

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