“Anyone with an ounce of humanity can see how toxic and ill thought out this policy is.”

Permission has just been granted for the Child Poverty Action Group (CPAG) to apply for judicial review of the two-child limit and the case will now go forward to a full hearing.

On 6 April 2017, new rules set out in the Welfare Reform and Work Act 2016, came into force limiting the child element of child tax credit (CTC) and Universal Credit (UC) awards to two children.