Overview
- Abolishing the cap is presented as the keystone of a wider package that would raise Universal Credit and create a benefits floor to prevent deep poverty.
- The limit, introduced in 2017, withholds about £3,500 a year for third and subsequent children and currently affects roughly 1.7 million children.
- Ministers acknowledged the findings and highlighted jobcentre reforms, expanded free school meals and a forthcoming child poverty strategy, without committing to end the cap.
- Commission members include figures from Labour, the Conservatives and the Liberal Democrats, adding political breadth ahead of the autumn strategy.
- The report also condemns the now-abandoned plan to cut £5bn from disability benefits, saying it would have pushed about 250,000 disabled people into poverty.