Minister heaps pressure on Rachel Reeves to find money to scrap two-child benefit cap saying she is ‘ashamed’ of poverty levels
A cabinet minister, saying that their child poverty levels were ‘shameful’, put pressure on Rachel Reeves to increase the benefits today.
Training Secretary Bridget Phillipson admitted that welfare changes would cost, but if the support is not supported, he warned ‘serious consequences’.
The chancellor faces an excellent storm in the budget in this autumn, with a oyster for more expenditure of interest rates in the economy, and even more interest rates in the British debt mountain rise.
Ms Reeves’ planning another major tax raid and fears of the emergence of a series of brutal options throughout the summer. Many deputies are demanding a reserve tax to collect large amounts despite the alarm of entrepreneurs.
Phillipson is the co -chairman of the child poverty, which prepares the strategy of the government to be published in autumn.
Training Secretary Bridget Phillipson admitted that welfare changes would cost, but if the support is not supported, he warned ‘serious results’
Chancellor Rachel Reeves face an excellent storm in the budget this autumn, an oyster for more spending even while the economy is slowing down, and interest rates in the rise of British debt
The two children’s border was first announced in 2015 by the conservatives and entered into force in 2017. In most households, the first two children restrict child tax loans and universal loan.
Another policy, useful advantages, restrict the amount of support financed by the total taxpayer that a household can receive.
The Institute of Financial Research estimated that the cost of scrapping both would be £ 3.3 billion per year.
The reform supported the underlying of the lid, but Tories warned that welfare costs are already out of control.
Ms. Phillipson, Sky News ‘Sunday morning Trevor Phillips and said:’ I see a large number of children growing in poverty we see in our country, ” he said.
Child care financed by the taxpayer in the UK drew attention to the expansion of free school meals and breakfast clubs.
The government was asked whether the two children will remove the benefit limit: ‘We look at more children in every way in which we can handle poverty. This, however, extends to social security measures.
‘This is not the only way to remove children from poverty, and of course it comes with a big price tag, but we know that acting comes with serious consequences and effect.’
York Archbishop Stephen Cottrell said that not being able to overcome child poverty is’ deeply embarrassing for us as a nation ‘and the two children’s boundaries are one of the contributors’.
Former Prime Minister Gordon Brown supported banks’ proposals to support gambling tax reforms and their proposals to support taxes to finance their efforts to alleviate poverty.
He told the Archbishop Sky News: ‘There are children every day in a rich country like ours – so, thousands of children every day – hungry to school. Sleeping does not have a suitable bed to have all poverty stigmatization and life -limiting effects. This should not be the way that everyone knows that everyone accepts. ‘
The promised children’s strategy was expected in the spring, but now the aid organizations and organizations working in the industry to be published in autumn are estimated that more than 100 children are withdrawn per day.
When asked about the delay in the strategy and the number that has been dragged into poverty, the Archbishop is deeply ashamed for us as a very annoying and a nation. ‘
“We know that two children’s limit is one of the contributing factors of growing child poverty.”
Other faith leaders signed an open letter to the prime minister and the chancellor to scrape the limit of two children.
38 senior figures of different beliefs, including the old archbishop of Canterbury Lord Rowan Williams, said: ‘It is difficult to design a strategy of an effective child poverty that does not move on the restrictive benefit limit and end the limits of two children.
“Faith groups challenged the border with moral reasons that rejected the third and later children of the state, and this inevitably rejected poverty.
“ As many charities and thought tanks show, to end the limit of two children is the most costly way to address child poverty. We believe that this should be a priority for your government. ‘
A government spokesman said: ‘Every child – whatever their history – deserves the best beginning of life. Therefore, our child poverty mission power will publish an ambitious strategy to solve the structural and main causes of child poverty.
‘We invest £ 500 million in the development of children, expand free school meals, and the poorests are not hungry with a new crisis support package of £ 1 billion on holidays. ‘
Toray Frontbencher Alex Burghart told Sky News that his party is still connected to the boundaries of two children.
‘I think that people who are beneficial have to face the same choices as people who are here.
“ I do not think that an incredibly expensive extension to the welfare system is what the British people want or meet at the moment.
‘But even other than that, in principle, we should not extend prosperity forever.’
