Scrapping two-child benefit limit ‘would still leave 100,000 young Britons in poverty’

The two-child limit and benefit cap are driving up child poverty, says Alison Garnham, CEO of Child Poverty Action Group. Photograph: Richard Johnson/Alamy

Tens of thousands of children affected by the two-child benefit limit may not be lifted out of poverty unless the overall benefit cap is reformed, official figures show.

Introduced by the Conservatives, the two-child limit stops households with a third or subsequent child born from 6 April 2017 receiving additional universal credit or child tax credits for these members of the family.