The cap was imposed by the Conservative administration and forbids parents of children born after April 2017 from obtaining Universal Credit or the child tax credit if they have more than two children.
Thus, according to the Resolution Foundation, families are not eligible to receive an additional £3,200 year for each additional child.
A Lalitha Try organization economist stated that while there was “clear evidence” of financial loss for families, there was not much data to support the policy’s claims of increasing employment.
By the conclusion of the parliament, most children in large families will live in poverty unless the policy is changed, she continued.
Any new plan to combat child poverty needs to find the money to do it.
Of those 1.6 million, 270,000 were claiming the universal child tax credit, which is open to all families, and 1.3 million were in households receiving Universal Credit, which is meant for those with low or no income.
From 71,000 in April 2017 to 450,000 in April 2018, more households were impacted.
