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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Politics
Aine Fox

Two-child limit scrapped at cost of £3bn to cut child poverty by 450,000

The controversial two-child benefits limit will be scrapped from April, at a cost of £3 billion at the end of this Parliament.

Ditching the policy will result in an estimated reduction of child poverty by 450,000 by 2029/30, the Government’s independent spending watchdog said.

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