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 But let's not also forget, when the Government starts crowing about how amazing they are for doing so, that they spent a long time refusing to lift the cap, justifying the existence of the cap, and kicking their own MPs out of the party for suggesting lifting the cap.

@beemoh

yes, absolutely fair comment; they posted away much of the political benefit by being so reluctant & being forced (in effect) to do so....