The Latest Breaking News from Poverty

Is there a strong economic case for dropping the two-child benefits cap? This is what the evidence tells us

As she carefully prepares the UK’s reaction to her second budget the chancellor, Rachel Reeves, has now hinted that she may be ready to scrap the two-child benefits cap.

The Conversation · Nov 14, 2025

Getting the story: How an AP reporter chronicled a sensitive story about school and eviction

AP reporter Bianca Vázquez Toness has heard teachers worry that the most pernicious challenges their students face, like poverty or housing insecurity, are beyond the realm of what schools can fix

The Independent UK · Nov 14, 2025

‘We’re proud to be pioneers’: inside Spain’s community energy revolution

From Taradell to Galicia, cooperatives are supplying cheap, clean electricity to homes and helping tackle fuel poverty

The Guardian - UK · Nov 14, 2025

Racism returning to UK politics – and people are very scared, says Starmer

PM attacks ‘toxic division of Reform’ and gives strongest signal yet that two-child benefit cap will be lifted

The Guardian - UK · Nov 11, 2025

Two-child benefit cap will be lifted in the Budget, hints PM Keir Starmer

‘You won't have to wait much longer to see what the measures are (to tackle child poverty)’ - Sir Keir Starmer

Evening Standard · Nov 11, 2025

Keir Starmer hints he could scrap two-child benefit cap in Budget

The prime minister said his government will be ‘taking a number of measures’ to tackle child poverty

The Independent UK · Nov 11, 2025

Starmer hints two-child benefit cap could be axed in Budget

Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer said he was ‘personally committed to driving down child poverty’.

Evening Standard · Nov 11, 2025

Rachel Reeves Aims to Remove Two-Child Cap — Is It Fair to UK Taxpayers or a Lifeline for Large Asylum Families?

Rachel Reeves plans to scrap the two-child benefit cap, sparking debate over fairness, cost to taxpayers and its impact on child poverty in the UK.

International Business Times UK · Nov 11, 2025

Rachel Reeves signals plan to remove two-child benefit cap in budget

Chancellor understood to be preparing to fully reverse measure, which would cost over £3bn but could lift 350,000 children out of poverty

The Guardian - UK · Nov 10, 2025

Rachel Reeves hints at lifting two-child benefit cap at Budget

The chancellor said it was important not to let the ‘costs to our economy in allowing child poverty to go unchecked’

The Independent UK · Nov 10, 2025