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Around 20,000 Scots children are set to be lifted out of poverty after the Chancellor scrapped the “heinous” two child benefit cap. The £3bn move, confirmed in a leak minutes before Rachel Reeves published her Budget, will give thousands of pounds to the poorest families across the UK . ‌

The curb was introduced by the previous Tory Government in 2017 and is widely believed to have led to a rise in child poverty. Keir Starmer’s Government initially refused to scrap the cap on the grounds of cost, but pressure by backbench Labour MPs has forced Reeves to change course in her second Budget . ‌

Modelling by the Child Poverty Action Group estimates that ending the cap will lift 350,000 children out of poverty. Around 20,000 of the children are in Scotland .

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