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

@ChrisMayLA6 Scotland mitigated the 2 child cap with our own benefit which has raised many children and their families out of poverty 💙🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿