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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Holly Bancroft

Scrapping two-child benefit cap could lift 600,000 children out of poverty in five years, analysis finds

Scrapping the two-child benefit cap would lift 600,000 children out of poverty in the next five years, analysis has found.

Researchers at Action for Children have warned that separate plans to boost parents’ income by getting them into better or new employment would “barely shift the dial” on child poverty.

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