Two child benefit cap scrapped - the places in Greater Manchester that will benefit the most

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The lifting of the two-child benefit limit will be felt by more than 111,000 children across Greater Manchester, as charities welcome Rachel Reeves’ move to scrap the cap.

Introduced by the Conservative Party in 2018, the two-child benefit limit prevents parents from claiming Child Tax Credit or Universal Credit for more than two children - but this is now being ditched. Announcing the move, which is estimated to cost £3bn a year by 2029-30, Reeves said her party did "not believe that the solution to a broken welfare system is to punish the most vulnerable children".

An estimated 350,000 children across the country could be lifted out of poverty as a result, according to research by the End Child Poverty Coalition. The two-child benefit limit affected a record high of 46