Plans to lift two-child benefit cap will land UK's biggest jobless families with £20K a year costing taxpayer £3.5B

PLANS to lift the two-child benefit cap could give Britain's largest families around £20,000 a year.

Around 70,000 families would receive more than £18,000 a year in child benefits if ministers move to lift the controversial limit .

Some of the largest families in the UK would find themselves more than £20,000 better off compared to the current system, however this could come at a hefty cost to the taxpayer .

The two-child benefit cap - introduced by the Conservatives in 2017 - means parents cannot claim Universal Credit payments (worth about £300 a month) for more than two of their kids.

However, ministers have floated the idea of scrapping the cap - which would cost £3.5 billion.

Pressure has been growing on Keir Starmer to change the policy, with his backbenchers believing