What is the UK’s two-child cap on benefits and will Labour reverse it?
Al Jazeera
Prime Minister Keir Starmer is facing calls from campaigners and his own MPs to scrap the cap on family benefits, but will he?
The United Kingdom’s newly elected Labour Party is facing growing calls to abolish restrictions to benefits paid to parents that were imposed by the previous Conservative government.
UK governments have provided financial help towards the costs of raising children since 1946.
However, in recent years, payments to families have come under increasing pressure. In 2017, the Conservative government limited the number of children families may claim benefits for to two children.
Often said to hit the poorest in British society the hardest, the two-child benefit cap has long been a source of rancour for many politicians, public figures and antipoverty campaigners.
Hopes had been high that the centre-left Labour Party might reverse the two-child benefit cap on assuming power.
