An “arbitrary” decision to shortcut the process used by HMRC to crackdown on child benefit fraud and error has been criticised by the chair of the influential Treasury Select Committee.
The government has been urged to abolish the two-child benefit cap as part of a suite of measures aimed at lifting more than four million people out of poverty.
The government is delaying publication of its child poverty strategy until the autumn as it considers scrapping the controversial two-child benefit cap.
Scrapping the two-child limit would be a quick and cost-effective fix for child poverty – but the benefit cap would wipe out the gains for the poorest families, research has revealed.
Parents working full time on the national living wage (NLW) are significantly short of the income needed to give children an acceptable minimum living standard, the Child Poverty Action Group has...
Reforms that will restrict universal credit benefits to the first two children in a family could see 200,000 children dip below the poverty line, according to a study released today.
Parents who persistently allow their children to miss school will have their Child Benefit docked if they fail to pay fines, the prime minister has announced.
