The Latest Breaking News from Poverty

UK chancellor Rachel Reeves has taken decisive action in getting rid of the two-child limit – a policy that has held a totemic place in the UK for more than a decade. Since 2017, this policy has limited the means-tested support that families can receive from the state to the…

The UK government is expected to soon publish its ten-year child poverty strategy, designed to tackle the root causes of poverty for children.

But the Scottish First Minster said he will instead use the £155 million to further act to reduce child poverty in Scotland.

The right is already in a frenzy about the migrant groups it thinks will benefit – and the budget contained other trade-offs, says Guardian columnist Frances Ryan

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Some climate campaigners have criticised the move by Rachel Reeves to cut green levies

First Minister John Swinney said money freed up by the Chancellor’s announcement would be used to help in the fight against child poverty.

Abolition is popular with backbenchers and is expected to stabilise precarious positions of the PM and chancellor

Ditching the policy will result in an estimated reduction of child poverty by 450,000.

UK chancellor Rachel Reeves has made some significant reforms in her latest budget. Notably, she has committed to easing living cost pressures with widespread energy bill support, higher taxes for the most expensive homes, and axing the two-child cap on certain benefits.

Scottish Labour leader Anas Sarwar said the UK Government’s actions will lift thousands of Scottish children out of poverty.