15,000 kids in the region to benefit from two-child cap being scrapped

THE LIMIT CURRENTLY IMPACTS OVER A FIFTH OF KIDS IN EAST HULL

- By ANDREW SPENCE

THE lifting of the two-child benefit limit will be felt by over 15,000 children across Hull and East Yorkshire.

In her Budget last week, Chancellor Rachel Reeves announced the policy, which she said “has pushed hundred of thousands of children into poverty,” will be lifted from April.

The two-child benefit limit prevents parents from claiming Child Tax Credit or Universal Credit for more than two children, and was introduced by the Conservative Government in 2017.

Announcing the move to remove the limit, which is estimated to cost £3 billion a year by 2029-30, Ms Reeves said her party did “not believe that the solution to a broken welfare system is to punish the most vulnerable children”.