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MORE than 70,000 families have been hit by the two-child limit on child benefits in the first year of the policy, official stats showed yesterday.
Since April 6 2017, only a family’s first two children have been eligible for benefits of up to £2,780 per child per year. Before then all children in low-income families could attract the payment to help keep them out of poverty.
Families with a third or subsequent child born after that date will no longer be able to claim a child element for that child or any future children.
Labour will find increases in the state pension age are unacceptable, just as cuts to the Winter Fuel Allowance, personal independence payments and universal credit are — it needs to change direction immediately, writes PCS general secretary FRAN HEATHCOTE
