The Two-Child Limit Debate
The ‘two child limit’ was introduced by the Conservative government in the budget after their 2015 general election win. It prevents families with a third child born after April 2017 from receiving some of the welfare benefits payments specifically intended to provide for children. A low-income family with, for example, three children all born before April 2017 would receive payments through universal credit or child tax credits to support each of their three children.[1] An equivalent family with three children where at least one was born after April 2017 would receive payments to support only the first two