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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Politics
Katrine Bussey

Swinney urged to increase spending on benefits as Chancellor lifts two-child cap

Chancellor Rachel Reeves used her Budget to announce ‘fully costed and fully funded’ plans to end the two-child cap on some benefits from April (Luke Jones/PA) -

Scottish ministers are facing calls to hike spending on social security in the wake of Chancellor Rachel Reeves’s “transformational” commitment to end the two-child cap.

Ms Reeves said the policy, which means families can only claim some benefits for their first two children, will end in April.

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