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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Aine Fox

Children’s charity urges scrapping of benefit cap on ‘unhappy’ 10th anniversary

PA Wire

The “deeply harmful” benefit cap must be scrapped, a children’s charity has urged a decade after the measure was brought in.

Some of the worst-affected families have less than £50 to live on each week after paying their rent, the Child Poverty Action Group (CPAG) said in its analysis.

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