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UK's £15 Billion Benefits Boost Aims to Alleviate Child Poverty

11/24/2025

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Rachel Reeves, the United Kingdom Chancellor of the Exchequer (UK), plans a £15 billion benefits-spending increase in the Budget.
The increase would be funded by taxes on working individuals.
The plan would scrap the two-child benefit cap, costing taxpayers £3 billion a year.
Estimates say the measure could lift hundreds of thousands of children out of poverty.
The proposal is seen as addressing internal Labour pressures from the left wing.

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Rachel Reeves, the United Kingdom Chancellor of the Exchequer (UK), plans a £15 billion benefits-spending increase in the Budget.
The increase would be funded by taxes on working individuals.
The plan would scrap the two-child benefit cap, costing taxpayers £3 billion a year.
Estimates say the measure could lift hundreds of thousands of children out of poverty.
The proposal is seen as addressing internal Labour pressures from the left wing.