'It's become increasingly unaffordable to have a child whether you're in work or not' Camden Council Leader Georgia Gould on the two-child benefit cap and cost-of-living crisis in the capital. politicslondon |
Campaigners have lost their legal challenge to the government's two-child limit on welfare payments.
One had health problems and was in low-paid work. The other fell pregnant while on the pill. Both had children born after April 2017 and so were affected financially by the policy. Lawyers representing two families who brought the legal challenge argued that the limit would cause "deep and inescapable child poverty" and "fails to recognise children as deserving of social protection in their own right".
He added that while the policy had a disproportionate impact on women, Parliament had decided that was outweighed by the importance of its aim - something which the justices had no basis to properly take a different view.