Leeds reflects on the scrapping of the two-child benefit cap

The cap on benefits for more than two children has been scrapped and workers will pay more tax to fund it - do you think that’s fair?

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00:00I think lifting children out of poverty is a benefit for the whole of the country.

00:03You invest in early years and you're going to recoup that by the health benefits later on.

00:08I think anyone who thinks that families are going to have 100 kids just to earn an income are really wrong.

00:15Yeah, I think, yeah, it's brilliant that they've scrapped it.

00:18Scrapping the two-child benefit cap is long overdue.

00:22Very glad they have at last done that because children in poverty is just storing up terrible trouble

00:29and more expense for us in the future.

00:33And also it's a very cruel thing to do, especially when there are so many billionaires around.

00:37They need taxing.

00:38It has been, in my opinion, where families have been like, oh, I've got one kid and that's it.

00:43And the other kid just gets whatever's left.

00:46But now it's scrapped.

00:47It's if they actually do it correctly and not just go, here, you've got three kids, there's three lots.

00:54It's four kids, three lots.

00:55Two-child benefits should have stayed, most definitely.

00:58Most definitely.