One million children in working families to be hit by ‘devastating’ two-child benefit cap
In working families, more than one million children are determined to be affected by the benefits of two children, and new analysis, labor force has been faced with renewed pressure to scrape controversial policy.
In a report made by the Child Poverty Action Group (CPAG), although there are at least one parent, thousands of families are struggling because they do not reach their third children or beyond because they do not reach their third children or beyond.
Introduced under conservative welfare reforms, the CAP prevents parents from claiming the child’s element of universal loan at £ 292.81 per month for a third or next child born after April 2017.
The latest figures estimate that approximately 1.7 million children are currently affected by politics and CPAG will reach one million children in October only in working families. This means that approximately 60 percent of the affected households contain at least one employee parent.
Research by a charity aid organization fighting poverty, a lonely parent with three full -time children working with minimum wage is currently 4,500 £ a year under the poverty limit. If the two children had been scrapped, it would have been better than £ 3,500 than £ 1,000 per year under the line.
In this case, even a parent in the average gains are £ 2,000 under the poverty line.
The CPAG renewed the government’s call to scrape controversial measures and said that 350,000 children would remove “immediately” from poverty at a cost of £ 2 billion.
Alison Garnham, the General Manager of the Charitable Organization, said: “The parents of the two children’s limit dancing on a needle-dancing on a needle-to work as much as possible, to raise their children and to pay invoices-but the totals do not collect.
“These are unbearable to force the boundaries of the families working in our schools, hospitals, business centers and services.
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“The government must undertake to scrape the policy in the child poverty strategy, or there will be more children before this parliament starts to work in poverty.”
Shauna and his partner have three children, but under the limit of two children, the smallest does not receive universal credit support. She quit her job last year to look at her autistic son while her husband was working full -time.
“Two children’s limit is the difference between being in debt. We have public services and you have to use credit cards only to continue to live at the end of the month,” he said.
“I didn’t expect to be in universal loan. Nobody wants to be and I don’t plan to be benefits forever. But nobody knows what happens to them.”
Another influenced parent, who remained anonymously, said, “I am a taxpayer and my children will grow and pay taxes, but now they abandoned when they need support.”
The findings from the CPAG are faced with renewed calls to scrape the benefits of both the opposition and two children from the Backbench Labor Party deputies.
Last week, he wrote to a group of 33 deputies led by Kim Johnson, a member of the worker, to put an end to the “destructive” policy. This was followed by a similar letter with 55 deputies led by liberal democratic work and retirement spokesman Steve Darling.
The government will publish a delayed strategy to deal with poverty, which he says he will be “ambitious ,, later this year.
Mr. Darling, who responds to CPAG report findings Independent: “This valuable evidence from the CPAG confirms what the liberal democrats have been saying for years: the title of two children is ruthless and ended. Children punish children for conditions beyond their control and pushing more families to deeper and deeper poverty each year.
“The chancellor has the opportunity to undertake to finish the cover with the new budget, as they have recently written to do what is right in this autumn and to imply to imply to do it.
“The upcoming child poverty strategy will not touch the paper in which it is written if it does not contain a significant commitment for the end of the border. Something less will only lead to poverty.”
A government spokesman said: “Every child deserves the best beginning of life, regardless of their past. So our child poverty will publish an ambitious strategy to solve the structural and root causes of child poverty.
“We invest £ 500 million in the development of children by providing the best start family centers, expanding free school meals and not being hungry during the holidays during the new 1 billion £ crisis support package.”
