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Child benefits

August 2024

  • Shadow of a child on a playground swing<br>Shadow of a child on a playground swing - stock photo

    I have three daughters. These are the ways the two-child benefit limit affects us every single day

    Anonymous
    As politicians go back and forth on scrapping the policy, four of us are barely getting by on the money provided for three, says an anonymous single parent

July 2024

  • A woman walks along an elevated walkway on the Falinge Estate, which has been surveyed as the most deprived area in England for a fifth year in a row

    Benefit cap traps families in crowded, rat-infested homes, report finds

  • Family Walking Through Winter Woodland Having Fun

    The two-child benefit cap: what is it, does it work and how much would it cost to scrap it?

  • Ben Jennings on Labour party management under Keir Starmer – cartoon

    Guardian Opinion cartoon
    Ben Jennings on Labour party management under Keir Starmer – cartoon

  • Small boy playing in a park

    Labour is out of touch on the two-child benefit cap

  • Politics Weekly UK
    Labour suspensions and the Tory leadership race - Politics Weekly UK

  • The Guardian view on Labour’s rebellion: removing the whip is a step too far

  • Carer's allowance crisis
    Rachel Reeves must overhaul ‘perverse’ carer’s allowance rule, Martin Lewis says

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

  • Where’s the cash for child hunger? Labour is running out of time to find it

    Frances Ryan

  • Economics viewpoint
    Labour should scrap two-child benefit cap sooner rather than later

    Larry Elliott

  • UK politics: minister cites ‘strict spending controls’ amid calls to scrap two-child benefit cap – as it happened

  • Labour has power at last. Will it use it to scrap the inhumane two-child benefit cap?

    Ruth Patrick

  • Labour’s missed chance to reduce child poverty

June 2024

  • Polly Toynbee

    Infant mortality is rising and births are plummeting. This is the legacy of 14 years of Tory cruelty

    Polly Toynbee
    Grim figures show that children in poverty are dying needlessly. We desperately need a government that puts them first, says Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee
  • A child playing with toy building blocks

    Tories pledge to double tax threshold for child benefits to £120,000

    Threshold would apply to households rather than individuals under plan that party says would cost £1.3bn a year
  • A woman holding hands with a child walk along the pavement.

    Will Labour or the SNP serve Scots and their families better?

    Letters: The SNP’s child payment policy covers all children, whereas Labour can’t even commit to abolishing the two-child benefit cap, writes Sue Hawthorne. However, Alex Gallagher and Mark Openshaw are less enthused about the SNP’s record

May 2024

  • A parent with two small children on a stairway on an estate

    Next government urged to wake up to UK’s ‘shocking’ levels of child poverty

    Charities call for law within first 100 days after general election to ensure annual rises in the financial help parents receive
  • A girl plays with a jigsaw at a Sure Start nursery.

    The Observer view on child poverty: Labour must tackle this scourge as soon as possible

    Growing up in a poor household is one of the biggest barriers to opportunity, yet it affects millions of children
  • Gaby Hinsliff

    When Suella Braverman lectures Labour on child poverty, something is very wrong

    Gaby Hinsliff
    If even the Tory right-winger sees political capital in opposing the two-child benefit cap, Keir Starmer needs to think again, says Guardian columnist Gaby Hinsliff
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