Families affected by two-child benefit limit ‘more likely to skip meals’

The new Labour government has faced calls to scrap the two-child benefit limit imposed by the Conservatives in 2017. Photograph: Daniel Harvey Gonzalez/In Pictures/Getty Images

Families hit by the two-child benefit cap are much more likely to go hungry, skip meals or be unable to afford to eat healthily, according to new data which shows about one in four low-income families with three or more children are suffering food insecurity.

The Food Foundation thinktank called on the government to scrap the two-child limit as part of a package of measures that it argued would cut child poverty and reduce hunger.