The government is considering getting rid of the two-child benefit cap first brought in by the Conservatives, and it has got people talking.
The policy has caused considerable consternation within the Labour Party, with a growing number of MPs calling to scrap it and ministers so far refusing to.
Nigel Farage said his party would scrap the two-child benefit cap because “it’s the right thing to do”.
Since 2017, parents have only been able to claim child tax credit and universal credit for their first two children, if they were born after April 2017.
An exception is made for children born as a result of rape.
Government figures show one in nine children (1.6m) are impacted by the two-child limit.
The Resolution Foundation said the cap would increase the number of children in poverty to 4.8 million by the next election in 2029-30.
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Mike Graham was talking to Esther McVey on Talk TV when he said: “Sometimes it’s the wrong people that have so many children… we’ve all seen the estate family where a woman has 7 different kids to 7 different dads… inevitably they’re going to join that underclass of society.”
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