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in 2017, limits the benefits a person can receive for their third or subsequent children, unless they can prove certain conditions such as that the child was a result of rape.Prime Minister Keir Starmer has supported the cap and said that the top priority for his Labour government is economic growth.It reported: “The SNP has announced plans to join Labour rebels in trying to force the government to scrap the two-child benefit cap.
"Join" is wild. The SNP voted against the 2 child cap when it was introduced, has campaigned against it ever since and abolishing it was a manifesto commitment. We haven't joined anyone.On Monday, SNP Westminster leader Stephen Flynn wrote to Scottish Labour group leader Anas Sarwar asking him to instruct his MPs to support an amendment to the King’s Speech aimed at ending the cap.
Flynn said it would be “simple” for the UK Government to scrap the cap “immediately” but added this was “a political choice and it requires politicians, across parties, to demand better”.Figures published last week by the Department for Work and Pensions showed there were 1.6 million children living in households affected by the cap as of April this year, up from 1.5 million to April 2023.
The Resolution Foundation has said that abolishing the two-child limit would cost the Government somewhere between £2.5 billion and £3.6bn in 2024/25, but that such costs are “low compared to the harm that the policy causes”.We know there are thousands of National readers who want to debate, argue and go back and forth in the comments section of our stories. We’ve got the most informed readers in Scotland, asking each other the big questions about the future of our country.
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