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Benefit limit ‘used children as pawns’ says minister
South Wales Evening Post
|February 04, 2026
THE two-child benefit limit was a policy which used children as pawns, MPs heard before a first vote on plans to scrap the cap.
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Work and Pensions Secretary Pat McFadden told Parliament the policy introduced under the Conservatives in 2017 - was “all about the politics of dividing lines” between the “deserving and undeserving poor”.
Labour has faced calls to scrap the policy, which restricts child tax credit and universal credit to the first two children in most households, since they came to power in 2024.
Seven Labour MPs were suspended by the party after a backing an SNP motion to scrap the measure in a vote that year.
At the time, the UK Government cited spending controls as a reason for not being able to ditch the policy immediately, indicating there would be no change without economic growth.
This story is from the February 04, 2026 edition of South Wales Evening Post.
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