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Tax credits

July 2024

  • Keir Starmer

    Labour MP calls two-child benefit cap ‘heinous’ in latest call to scrap policy

    Keir Starmer under pressure to scrap limit as more than dozen MPs thought to support king’s speech amendment

April 2024

  • The silhouette of a 17 year old homeless girl with her baby in a corridor in a London building.

    Labour urged to end two-child benefits cap as research reveals policy pushing families into poverty

    New data shows families with disabled children, and single parents with offspring under the age of three facing financial hardship

July 2023

  • Owen Jones

    There’s no point to Labour as a party if it won’t pay to pull children out of poverty

    Owen Jones
  • A boy resting his arms on a window frame looks out at an urban area

    What is the UK’s two-child benefit cap and how has it affected families?

May 2022

  • An older woman shopping in a supermarket

    Cost of living: how the payments affect people in various scenarios

  • Department for Work & Pensions office in London.

    Halt shift to universal credit to protect vulnerable Britons, charities demand

September 2021

  • Many pensioners, most of them likely women, have been short-changed.

    UK pensions shortfall is ‘tip of the iceberg’, says former minister

    Steve Webb says IT and human errors are systemic and may also affect tax credits and universal credit

July 2021

  • Two young girls playing with blocks on floor

    Supreme court rejects challenge to universal credit ‘two-child limit’

    April 2017 rule restricts child tax credit and universal credit to first two children, with exceptions

March 2020

  • empty chairs outside a restaurant

    Sunak launches third UK budget in nine days – and the most crucial

    Latest emergency coronavirus package poses three huge questions: is it well targeted, is it enough and is it in time?

February 2020

  • Larry Elliott

    Economics viewpoint
    How poverty has become the scourge of those in work

    Larry Elliott
    Zero-hours contracts and under-employment have slowed UK pay rises while housing is too dear for the low paid

November 2019

  • Supplies being sorted at a food bank.

    Million universal credit households ‘do not get full entitlement’

  • Frank Field

    End two-child benefits limit, say cross-party MPs

July 2019

  • A child at an after-school club.

    Government urged to scrap 'nasty' two-child limit on benefits

  • Childcare vouchers can be used to cut the costs of summer camps and holiday clubs.

    Summer holidays: how to get help with the childcare costs

December 2018

  • Former Labour party leader and prime minister Gordon Brown.

    Gordon Brown: I didn't think I'd see child poverty again in my lifetime

    Ex-chancellor’s tax credits started to erase problem – but universal credit reverses trend

October 2018

  • The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge pose for a photo with the newborn Prince Louis – their third child

    Unlike the royals, the poor mustn’t be allowed to breed like rabbits

    Kevin McKenna
  • Former British Chancellor George Osborne takes part in a press conference to launch the Northern Powerhouse Partnership at Manchester Town hall in Manchester, north west England on September 16, 2016. / AFP PHOTO / PAUL ELLISPAUL ELLIS/AFP/Getty Images

    Poorest families to lose out on £210 a year owing to benefits cap

August 2018

  • The Child Poverty Action Group has called for an increase in the ‘national living wage’ to allow families to have an acceptable standard of living.

    'No-frills' lifestyle out of reach of parents on minimum wage – study

    Report shows £49 weekly shortfall for couple working full-time with two children

April 2018

  • A girl carries a ball as she plays outside

    High court rules in favour of carers over two-child benefits cap

  • Sian Norris

    Esther McVey displays a shocking lack of empathy for rape victims

    Sian Norris
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