SCRAPPING the two-child benefit cap is essential for any credible poverty strategy, a think tank has said.
The Resolution Foundation projected that a three-child limit on benefits could cut child poverty by 320,000 by the end of this parliament.
Labour has been under pressure, including from within the party, to abolish the policy amid record highs rates of child poverty.
The government’s child poverty taskforce is due to present a strategy in spring.
Before the next general election, child poverty will hit a record high of 4.6 million on current forecasts, according to the Resolution Foundation.
The two-child limit was first announced in 2015 by the Conservatives and came into effect in 2017.
It restricts child tax credit and universal credit to the first two children in most households.
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