‘We should all be furious about the UK’s two child benefit limit’
275Child poverty in the UK is now at record levels, with 4.5 million kids living in poverty.One of the biggest drivers of this is the controversial two child limit policy, which caps universal credit and tax credits to a family’s first two children.
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With the Labour government’s Child Poverty Strategy due imminently, many charities and campaigners have called for this brutal policy to be scrapped. This move looks a step closer after Downing Street’s preferred candidate to be Labour’s deputy leader, Bridget Phillipson, said the policy had “punished and pushed children into hardship” and the cap’s abolition was “on the table”.
But what’s life actually like for mums under the limit and will the government listen to growing calls to abolish the austerity-era policy?
Journalist and poverty campaigner Terri White speaks to women in her area of Greater Manchester to find out.
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