End of benefit limit to help 60,000 children in North East

THE lifting of the two-child benefit limit will be felt by nearly 60,000 children in the North East.

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The benefit limit currently 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, which is estimated to cost £3bn a year by 2029-30, Chancellor Rachel Reeves said her party did “not believe that the solution to a broken welfare system is to punish the most vulnerable children”. An estimated 350,000 children across