UK must end cruel war on single mums by scrapping benefit caps

Rachel Reeves has indicated that she’s set to scrap the two-child limit later this month in her autumn budget statement but as the founder of the campaign group Single Parent Rights , I will be concerned how far this commitment goes until I hear the announcement of a full scrapping of both the two-child limit and the benefit cap.

The choice is really quite simple: allow child poverty to grow unchecked, or lift 400,000 children out of poverty and put a stop to its seemingly never ending expansion by scrapping the two child limit and the benefit cap .

The UK is the sixth richest economy in the world, but it remains the only country to limit means-tested benefits to two children. These policies are touted as incentives to ‘get people back to work’ and yet they do no such thing. Inst