Two-child limit and the freeze on children’s benefits ‘the most damaging welfare reform on children’s outcomes’.

Statistics published by the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) recently showed that 71,000 families lost entitlement to child allowances in tax credits or universal credit in the first year of the ‘two-child policy’.

The ‘two-child limit’ for child tax credit and universal credit came into force on 6 April 2017.