Gingerbread charity giftbox with a calender, tea bags, candle that says “thank you” and a charity pin in orange.

Dear @gingerbreadcharity.bsky.social it’s been a pleasure, so proud we have impacted the removal of the two child benefit cap and Child Maintenance Service reform- here’s to further progress over the upcoming year 🧡 #CMS #BenefitCap #LoneParent #Gingerbread

New analysis: Benefit cap blocks support for 1 in 5 families hit by two child limit | Policy in Practice New analysis finds that 1 in 10 children hit by the two child limit won't benefit from its removal unless the Chancellor lifts the Benefit Cap too

The _other_ #BenefitCap is still keeping children in poverty

#Budget #ChildPoverty
policyinpractice.co.uk/blog/new-ana...

I'm on the side of hungry children.

I wonder who's side the Express, Mail and Badenoch are on?

#ChildPoverty #BenefitCap #C4News

Wonderful! End to the #twochildlimit, such fantastic news. If the #benefitcap remains then it won't help everyone affected, but it is still hugely welcome.

We're being told the #Budget will scrap the #2-ChildBenefitCap but thousands of children in Britain's poorest families will remain in poverty unless the overall #BenefitCap is also scrapped. The Government will be giving with one hand and taking with another #DWP #TheTreasury

A piece from our founder in the @bigissue.com

The majority of people impacted by the benefit cap are single parents because of how its designed.

We shouldn't be targeting one group of people for financial hardship.

It's time for both the two child limit and the benefit cap to go.

#BenefitCap

A piece from our founder in the @bigissue.com

The majority of people impacted by the benefit cap are single parents because of how its designed.

We shouldn't be targeting one group of people for financial hardship.

It's time for both the two child limit and the benefit cap to go.

#BenefitCap

Brilliant piece from one of our campaigners on how the benefit cap is a threat hanging over so many - mainly - single mothers heads.

It's time this changed!

#BenefitCap #SingleParentFamilies

Latest benefit cap data reveals that 69% of capped households are single parent families.

Half of those families have a child aged 3 or younger. Yet are expected to earn what a couple does combined.

The cap must go along with the two child limit in this Autumn Budget.

#BenefitCap #TwoChildLimit

With the #budget2025 now scheduled for 26/11, its worth remembering that if @uklabour.bsky.social raises income tax by 1% a worker on median salary will pay about £5 a week extra in tax. 1 pint of beer or 1.5 coffees. lets keep this in perspective. Make it 2% and drop the 2 kid #benefitCap

4.5 million UK children live in poverty. 69% are in working families.
The two-child benefit cap affects ~1.5 million children - reform could lift 250,000 from poverty & reduce long-term costs 💡

👇 Read the latest blog by Isabel Edwards Buesa
www.radixbigtent.org.uk/news-comment... #BenefitCap

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#Labour
#Poverty
#BenefitCap
#UC

Social rent should be affordable to those on limited and no means. At the present time, housing support is often too low to sustain an affordable rent tenancy so social landlords turn applicants away. Hence the need to remove the #BenefitCap which limits the total benefits a household can claim.

Sometimes, if you listen very carefully, you realise that Andrew Pierce is just a hypocritical moron.

Watch this and prepare to be stunned.

#MoronOfTheWeek

#BenefitCap #ChildPoverty #Immigration #r4today

Three Right-Wing Parties, All Wrong on Welfare and Economy Tories, Labour and Reform UK are failing families with toxic welfare policies and fantasy economics. Here's why none of them have the answer.

Before bed, here’s some nightmare fuel:
All three right-wing UK parties are failing the poor — and the planet.
This is what they’re really up to.
#UKPolitics #BenefitCap #ClimateCrisis #WelfareSystem #VoxPolitical
voxpoliticalonline.com?p=98367

Two child benefit cap explained as 1.6 million could be affected by scrap The controversial policy was first brought in by the Conservatives and was upheld by Labour.

Two child benefit cap explained: Who could be a winner if the rule is scrapped?
www.express.co.uk/finance/pers...

#Twochildbenefitcap #benefitcap

I think Labour are making a massive mistake, morally and politically, if they refuse to scrap the two child benefit cap. It is becoming more and more difficult to see any benefit in their current approach to a lot of these issues. Depressing #benefitcap #labour

COLCHESTER Foodbank has said the number of children receiving food parcels has more than tripled in the past five years as child poverty across Britain reaches a record high.
#LabourParty #Starmer #BenefitCap #ChiledPoverty

Yep I know! Like the BILLIONS - handed to #Ukraine..out of the "mouths of starving kids" in the #UK because #WarmongerStarmer WON'T reverse the 2 child #BenefitCap! ALWAYS money to KILL people - NEVER money to SAVE them! I DESPISE Politicians - especially the rabid #RedTories!

Committee for Communities Meeting, Thursday 14 November 2024 - Northern Ireland Assembly TV The Committee for Communities met on Thursday 7 November 2024.

Well hello @bsky.app and everyone

I'm still focussing on social justice ... great to see Communities Committee pushing forward with #BenefitCap #CliffEdge25 issue

niassembly.tv/committee-fo... from 1.59.55

There was little on social security in the #Budget.

Here I summarise what preserving #austerity cuts like the #BenefitCap could mean for #youth #health in the #UK.

Based on research @usociety.bsky.social.

Happy to have contributed to @costoflivingblog.bsky.social!

Losses (GBP) in the corresponding source of benefit income for 9 major austerity reforms in the UK 2011-2013. Parents of adolescent children, Understanding Society data (Waves 1-10)

Here's an overview of all 🇬🇧 reforms we examined (period 2011-2013), with #housing #benefit, #taxcredit reform, #pip, the #Lone #Parent #Obligation and the #Benefitcap resulting in the largest (and most regressive) losses in the corresponding sources of #benefit #income

Losses (GBP) in the corresponding source of benefit income for 9 major austerity reforms in the UK 2011-2013. Parents of adolescent children, Understanding Society data (Waves 1-10)

Here's an overview of all 🇬🇧 reforms we examined (period 2011-2013), with #housing #benefit, #taxcredit reform, #pip, the #Lone #Parent #Obligation and the #Benefitcap resulting in the largest (and most regressive) losses in the corresponding sources of #benefit #income

#BenefitCap

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#childpoverty #benefitcap Irony is that #KeirStarmer & cabinet are more left wing & working class than #TonyBlair ever was. Huge chance to change policies yet continuing to fail. #reapwhatyousow #peston #Newsnight #bbclaurak #channel4news #thenewsagents #restispolitics #Labour #politics

1000s of families left on the breadline by the Tory #BenefitCap

#Welfare @CommonsWorkPen #r4today @LBC

Housing benefit is the 2nd biggest bit of the DWP budget after pensions. Why should my taxes subsidise buy to let landlords? #benefitcap

I haven't got Panorama on. They are discussing how to bring the social security bill down by introducing rent controls, yes? #benefitcap