Overview

• Labour backbenchers and cross-party MPs support scrapping the two-child benefit cap.
• The cap prevents parents from claiming benefits for third and subsequent children born after April 2017.
• Keir Starmer's taskforce aims to address child poverty but stops short of immediate policy changes.
• The policy costs affected families approximately £3,455 per child annually.
• Charities argue that abolishing the cap could lift 300,000 children out of poverty.