There are more levers which could be used to tackle child poverty than scrapping the two-child benefit cap, the Deputy Prime Minister has said as the Scottish Government seeks to mitigate it.

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would lift hundreds of thousands of children out of poverty. The cap was introduced by the Conservative government in 2017 as part of austerity measures under David Cameron and George Osborne and has ...

Introduced in 2017 by the Conservative government, the cap prevents parents from claiming Universal Credit or child tax credit for more than two children, with a few exemptions, including a child born ...

Pendle councillors across all political groups have criticised the new Labour government for 'continuing a Conservative policy' of imposing a two-child cap on benefit payments and for other decisions ...

The SNP’s pledge to mitigate the two-child benefit cap has been described as a “little slogan” by Labour’s Angela Rayner. The Deputy Prime Minister used a visit to Scotland to criticise ...

According to the Pew Research Center, the average American family downsized from 3.7 children in 1960 to 1.9 currently, and about 20 percent of households with children are one-child families.