Over 1.5 million children are currently living in households affected by the two-child limit, that is around one in nine children in the UK. 

Budget 2025: Will Reeves scrap the controversial two-child benefit cap?

ITV News speaks to families and communities impacted by the two-child benefit cap after renewed calls by Labour MP's to ditch the current system.

'I can't see a way out': Families struggling amid two-child benefit cap 

Former Labour Prime Minister Gordon Brown has called for the two-child benefit cap to be scrapped in an exclusive interview with ITV News.

Former PM Gordon Brown calls on Labour to scrap two-child benefit cap

First Minister of Scotland John Swinney, walks with Finance Secretary Shona Robison as she arrives to announce the draft Budget for 2025-26 to MSPs at the Scottish Parliament in Holyrood, Edinburgh. Picture date: Wednesday December 4, 2024.


Scotland's Finance Secretary Shona Robison promised to lift 15,000 children out of poverty as she made her Budget announcement. 

Scottish government vows to ditch two-child benefit cap 

Some campaigners have called for both that policy and the benefit cap to be scrapped to help lift children out of poverty.

Axing two-child limit ‘most cost-effective move but no silver bullet on poverty’

Between 2021-24 there were over 6,500 carers allowance overpayment breaches referred to the Department for Communities debt management.

Unpaid carers facing multi-million pound bill

Child Poverty Action Group says 'nowhere fares as badly as London'.

Families in London have as little as £44 a week to live on under benefit cap

Major changes are being made to the welfare system from next month, some specifically for Londoners.

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