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Scottish budget: SNP pledges to scrap two-child benefit cap
More political uncertainty – this time in Scotland, where the minority SNP government unveiled its budget.
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Starmer under pressure from some of his MPs to scrap two-child benefits limit
The political row escalated in July when seven Labour MPs had the whip suspended after they rebelled and voted for an SNP amendment to the King’s Speech, calling for the two-child limit to be scrapped.
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FactCheck: Labour’s two-child benefit cap row – explained
The Labour party is caught up in a row over the two child benefit cap – and if it should be scrapped.
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Sir Keir Starmer dodges questions on two-child benefit cap in PMQs
Sir Keir Starmer has dodged questions on the two-child benefit cap in his first Prime Minister’s Questions as PM.
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Starmer to suspend Labour MPs for rebelling over two-child benefit cap
The first rebellion of Sir Keir Starmer’s premiership is expected in Parliament this evening as MPs vote on the Government’s legislative programme.
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Two-child benefit cap is ‘cruel’ campaigners say
A record 1.6 million children are now affected by the two-child cap on benefits – and that’s cranking up the pressure on the new Labour government to scrap it.
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Parents protest against two-child benefit cap, claiming it’s pushed 250,000 kids into poverty
It’s been seven years since the two-child rule came into force, under which families can only claim benefits for up to two children, regardless of how many more they may actually have.
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Could child benefit be extended to give support to middle income families?
The Chancellor Jeremy Hunt is considering whether to extend child benefit to hundreds of thousands more families in his spring budget – to give direct support to middle income families.
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Lib Dems reveal Tory child benefit cut proposals
Lib Dem Danny Alexander says Conservative proposals in 2012 to cut child benefit and child tax credits, show where future cuts may come. The Conservatives say those plans were not backed by the PM.
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Cuts to child benefit: here to stay?
Cuts to child benefit look like they’re here to stay, whoever wins the next General Election. Labour Leader, Ed Miliband, has now decided it would be too expensive to reverse the policy.
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Philpott ‘lifestyle’ fires up debate over child benefit cap
Britons are right to question the benefit “lifestyles” led by people such as Mick Philpott, says Chancellor George Osborne, as the case for a two-child cap on child benefits is raised again.
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Child benefit changes: the key questions
With more than a million families to lose some or all of their child benefit from today under austerity measures, Channel 4 News looks at who these changes will affect and what will happen next.
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Child benefit changes here to stay – Cameron
David Cameron defends the government’s planned changes to benefits insisting welfare reforms are fundamentally fair – and sets his sights on being prime minister until 2020.
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Child benefit cuts could cost families ‘up to £50,000’
Upcoming child benefit cuts will cost some families with three young children around £50,000 by the time their youngest child reaches adulthood, a new report finds.
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Child benefit Q&A: Revenue sends out letters
As a million households receive letters this week from Revenue and Customs about changes to child benefit payments, Channel 4 News explains what is happening.
