https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/pressure-piles-labour-scrap-cruel-sibling-penalty-campaigners-warn-most-large. Many articles from the Morning Star today.

PRESSURE piled on Labour to scrap the government’s cruel “sibling penalty” today as campaigners warned it’s set to push the majority of large families below the poverty line by the end of this parliament.

The two-child benefit limit, introduced in 2017, stops parents from claiming universal credit or child tax credit for more than two children.

But figures from the Department for Work and Pensions show 1.6 million children are now affected by the policy, rising by 100,000 in a year.

The Resolution Foundation warned the policy will push most large families below the breadline by the end of the parliament and said abolishing it would lift 490,000 children out of poverty.

Sir Keir Starmer pledged to reduce child poverty at Labour’s manifesto launch, but failed to commit to scrapping the cap.

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https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/pressure-piles-labour-scrap-cruel-sibling-penalty-campaigners-warn-most-large. Many articles from the Morning Star today.