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Labour Aims to Lift Two-Child Benefit Cap to Fight Poverty

11/13/2025

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Keir Starmer (Labour Party leader) and Rachel Reeves (Labour Party member) are poised to lift the two-child benefit cap.
The cap, introduced in 2017, limits welfare for families with more than two children and contributes to rising child poverty.
Reeves says it is unjust for children to be penalized for their family's size.
Abolishing the cap could lift 350,000 to 630,000 children from poverty, though public scrutiny remains.

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Keir Starmer (Labour Party leader) and Rachel Reeves (Labour Party member) are poised to lift the two-child benefit cap.
The cap, introduced in 2017, limits welfare for families with more than two children and contributes to rising child poverty.
Reeves says it is unjust for children to be penalized for their family's size.
Abolishing the cap could lift 350,000 to 630,000 children from poverty, though public scrutiny remains.