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Benefits

July 2024

  • A mother and child walk up a street.

    The Guardian view on the two-child cap: scrap this nasty policy

  • Larry Elliott

    Economics viewpoint
    Labour should scrap two-child benefit cap sooner rather than later

    Larry Elliott
  • A football lying on the ground in a playground, with children playing in the background, out of focus

    Labour pressed to end two-child benefit cap with 1.6m youngsters affected

  • Children at a primary chool

    UK politics: minister cites ‘strict spending controls’ amid calls to scrap two-child benefit cap – as it happened

  • Labour has power at last. Will it use it to scrap the inhumane two-child benefit cap?

    Ruth Patrick

  • Tell us: have you been affected by the UK’s two-child limit on universal credit?

  • Your problems, with Anna Tims
    I’ve been denied carer’s allowance for eight months after I owned up to a job

  • I’m hungry, cold and have multiple disabilities. Does Starmer’s promise of real change include me?

    Marie

  • Labour’s missed chance to reduce child poverty

June 2024

  • Labour leader Keir Starmer is joined by members of his shadow cabinet to unveil their manifesto

    Could the UK soon have the most working-class cabinet of all time?

  • Minreet Kaur in a white blouse and red trousers (right) with her mother in a floral sleeveless blouse

    Life as an unpaid carer in the UK: ‘I feel unseen and unheard – and politicians don’t offer much’

  • a woman hands a plate of food to a smiling 80 -year old woman at the dinner table

    Unpaid UK carers ‘face financial hit that can last decades’

  • Leanne’s* two sons - Nathan* and Logan* , age 11 and eight, and her daughter, Faith*, six, at their grandma’s home in Tameside.

    The Guardian picture essay
    Families behind the two-child limit to benefits – photo essay

  • Politics live with Andrew Sparrow
    Sunak and Starmer clash over tax, borders and Brexit deal in final head-to-head before polling day – as it happened

  • DWP algorithm wrongly flags 200,000 people for possible fraud and error

  • Tax giveaways, rent caps and childcare: what the manifestos would mean for your finances

  • Keir Starmer ‘not immune’ to argument for scrapping two-child benefit cap

  • Campaigners hope Labour will scrap two-child benefit cap once in No 10

  • Starmer faces further calls for Labour to axe two-child benefit cap

  • The Guardian view on social security: Labour must face the harm caused by benefit cuts

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