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Daily Record
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Politics
Chris McCall

SNP calls for two-child cap on benefits to be scrapped amid cost of living crisis

The SNP has demanded the UK Government finally scraps the two-child cap on benefits amid the cost of living crisis.

The call came from Kirsty Blackman, the party's work and pensions spokeswoman, five years after the "futile and cruel" policy was introduced by Tory ministers.

The cap prevents benefits payments to the third child and any subsequent children in families born after April 2017 and has been cited as a factor behind increasing child poverty in the UK.

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