Greater than 400 households on advantages in West Dunbartonshire are being affected by the two-child restrict on funds.
Anti-poverty campaigners warn the coverage’s “damaging” affect will intensify as residing prices surge throughout the nation – placing the futures of 1 in 12 kids on the road.
Youngster Tax Credit score (CTC) – or the equal aspect of Common Credit score (UC) – is paid to households to assist with the price of elevating a baby.
However a cap launched on April 6, 2017 means most households who have already got two offspring received’t get money for any additional kids born on or after that date.
The funds are value £2,935 per yr for most youngsters, though these with disabilities or a household’s first youngster born earlier than April 2017 might get extra.
In West Dunbartonshire, 430 households have been affected by the cap, or 48.1 % of households on advantages with at the least three kids, based on the most recent Division for Work and Pensions (DWP) figures.
Total, there have been 1.3 million kids residing in UK households not getting any further money for at the least one youngster which Youngster Poverty Motion Group (CPAG) says is one in 12 kids throughout the nation. The charity mentioned the primary instalment of the UK Authorities’s £650 cost-of-living emergency fee – for these on income-related advantages and tax credit – would deliver “restricted consolation” to these affected by the two-child restrict for the reason that flat-rate fee takes no account of the variety of kids in a family.
In the meantime, an Institute for Fiscal Research report revealed final week discovered that profit cuts had pushed up youngster poverty ranges previous to the Covid-19 pandemic, with households with three or extra kids seeing “considerably bigger” will increase.
Alison Garnham, chief government of CPAG, mentioned: “It forces households to outlive on lower than they want, pushes them deeper and deeper into poverty as prices rise – and [the] emergency cost-of-living fee does nowhere close to sufficient to tug them again.
“One in 12 kids are taking the results of this brutal coverage – their well being, growth and well-being are being jeopardised.
“If each youngster issues – not just a few – the coverage should be abolished.”
A DWP spokeswoman mentioned the two-child restrict meant households on advantages have been requested to make the identical monetary choices as households supporting themselves solely via work.
She added: “In the meantime, to assist with rising costs over eight million households on advantages are in line to obtain the primary instalment of our £650 price of residing fee from July 14, with thousands and thousands getting at the least £1,200 in further help.”