POVERTY campaigners have demanded the UK Government urgently scraps the two-child benefit cap after figures revealed 26,000 families were impacted…
Prime Minister Keir Starmer has faced pressure to abolish the policy before he even took on the top job
But the latest figures from the Department for Work and Pensions showed 1840 more Scottish households are restricted by the 2017 policy which limits child tax credit and universal credit to the first two children in most circumstances. Claire Telfer, head of Scotland at Save the Children Scotland, said: “It’s an outrage that 26,000 families in Scotland are being denied vital support because of the unfair two-child limit, a rise of nearly two thousand families since last year.
David Hilferty, spokesperson for Citizens Advice Scotland, said: “The two-child limit severs the link between need and support, and fails to account for the fluid nature of real lives, leaving families on the edge.
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