LABOUR have been handed an ultimatum by the SNP if they do not include plans to drop the “shameful” two-child cap in the King’s Speech this…
leader Stephen Flynn has confirmed his party will table an amendment to end the policy if it does not appear in
"I urge Keir Starmer to include it in his programme for government this week but, if he fails, the SNP will lay an amendment to abolish it immediately. It is shameful and it must go now. In his letter, Flynn cited how the Institute for Fiscal Studies has warned 250,000 children will be impacted by the cap next year with the total number reaching 670,000 by the end of the next parliament.
One of these exemptions is what’s generally referred to as the “rape clause”. If a parent can prove a child was born as a result of"non-consensual conception", they may qualify to receive the benefit.The cap, which came into effect in April 2017, was among changes to the benefits system which were announced by then chancellor George Osborne in 2015.The Resolution Foundation think tank found that six out of 10 families affected by the two-child limit were already in work.
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