Two-child benefit cap comes to an end with aim of lifting 450,000 out of poverty

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The two-child cap on benefits officially ends on Monday, a move Sir Keir Starmer said showed his Government was “on the side of the British people”.An estimated 450,000 children will be lifted out of poverty as a result of the two-child benefit cap being scrapped by the Government.First introduced by the Conservatives in 2017, the policy restricted child tax credit and universal credit to the first two children in most households.

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00:00Giving our children the best start in life, unlocking their full potential, is so important to our country's future.

00:08And that is the purpose of this government.

00:11There is one policy that pushes kids into poverty more than any other.

00:17It was introduced by the party opposite.

00:23I can announce today, fully costed and fully funded, the removal of the two-child limit in full from April.

00:32To be with children who will benefit from, yes, from this policy, and give everybody in this room and everybody

00:40else a fair chance in life.

00:42So this is not about the politics of who's up, who's down this week.

00:46This is about generational change.

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