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The impact of the two-child benefit cap research

The two-child benefit cap restricted Universal Credit and Tax Credit payments to cover only the first two children in a family. This increased the child poverty rate for families with three or more children. Kitty Stewart played a key role in providing the evidence of that increase and demonstrating that the cap wasn't achieving its policy objectives anyway, attending Labour Conference in September as well as providing briefing, commentary and analysis. In the November Budget, the Government announced the cap would be scrapped.