Families may see their benefit payments restricted due to a new policy
The Institute for Fiscal Studies has warned that the number of children affected by the two-child benefit cap will increase by a third over the next five years.
The IFS study disclosed that 43% of children residing in homes where at least one individual is of Bangladeshi or Pakistani origin will be hit. Households affected will, on average, lose £4,300 annually, constituting 10% of their income based on the analysis, if nothing changes.Neither the Labour nor Conservative party have committed to abolishing the two-child cap in their General Election manifestos.
Eduin Latimer, a research economist at IFS, expressed: "The two-child limit is one of the most significant welfare cuts since 2010 and, unlike many of those cuts, it becomes more important each year as it is rolled out to more families." Alison Garnham, the chief executive of the Child Poverty Action Group, added: "Child poverty in the UK is a national disgrace and the biggest driver of it is the two-child limit. It makes life worse for kids up and down the country and limits their future chances.
"The election presents an opportunity for bold and ambitious action to be taken and for all political parties to commit to ending child poverty once and for all. That must include an increase to the child element of Universal Credit and scrapping the two-child limit and benefit cap.
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