It’s time to abolish the two-child benefit cap

... says Suella Braverman:

The truth is that Conservatives should do more to support families and children on lower incomes and cut welfare subsidies to people and businesses that do not need them ...

... A crucial reform that Frank [Field] advocated was to scrap the two-child benefits limit, restricting child tax credits and universal credit to the first two children in a family. If they have a third or fourth child a low-income family will lose about £3,200 per year. Over 400,000 families are affected and all the evidence suggests that it is not having the effect of increasing employment or alleviating poverty. Instead, it’s aggravating child poverty.

She suggests that it could be paid for by -

Getting more out of work claimants off welfare and back into work, and perhaps introducing some form of means testing for pensioners ... and we should also consider raising the minimum wage so that we take more workers out of in-work benefits ...

More if you want it: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/05/11/it-is-time-to-abolish-the-two-child-benefit-cap/