Mastodawn

Today the two-child benefit cap on universal credit ends (after nine years) allowing us to see (when data becomes available) what impact its imposition & now reversal had on child poverty.

Apart from anything else this will have been interesting opportunity to see clearly how state benefits impact poverty, and also (once again) give some indication of the skewed impact of the impact of austerity (which remains, while un-named, still at the centre of UK politics)

#benefits #poverty #austerity

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Simon Johnson

@ChrisMayLA6 but we mustn’t forget that the overall benefit cap - which principally affects larger families - remains in place

The 2-child cap was a wicked punishment of poor children and women but its removal, imo, is yet more #uklabour tinkering at the margins while refusing to acknowledge the reality of people’s lives experience and the rigged economic system that perpetuates grotesque levels of inequality