Education Secretary Bridget Phillipson has stated scrapping the two-child profit cap is “not off the table”. The Cabinet minister stated the coverage – which prevents most households from claiming means-tested advantages for any third or further youngsters born after April 2017 – had pushed folks into poverty.
Sir Keir Starmer and Chancellor Rachel Reeves are beneath stress to reply to mounting requires the two-child profit cap to be axed at a price of round £3.5 billion. Asked on Tuesday if she would “scrap” the cap, Ms Phillipson stated: “We’re certainly looking at it as part of the task force. As I say, nothing’s off the table but this is not straightforward, the costs are high.
“When we came into Government we had to make some difficult decisions about how we got the economy back on a stable footing, because actually it’s working people who lose out when you have that kind of instability that we saw under Liz Truss, when mortgage rates went up, rent went up as a result of all of the instability and the chaos.
“But I came into politics to tackle child poverty, to make sure that wherever you’re from doesn’t determine what you can go on to achieve in life, to break that link between background and success.
“That is the moral mission of this Labour Government. That is what we are all as a Government determined to deliver.”
She added: “We’ll set it all out later on this year, in the autumn. I think it’s important that we get it right.
“So what we’ve heard from experts, from organisations, from those who are supporting families and children in poverty, is that they want a comprehensive strategy that addresses every aspect of how we can make sure that fewer children are growing up in poverty.”
The Government’s youngster poverty technique, which was as a consequence of be printed within the spring, is now set to come back out within the autumn so it may be aligned with the Chancellor’s finances.
Around 1.6 million youngsters stay in a family affected by the cap, in accordance with statistics from the Department of Work and Pensions.
The Resolution Foundation suppose tank stated axing the coverage would elevate 470,000 youngsters out of poverty.
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