Claim: The two-child benefit cap kept 1.8 million children in poverty last year.
Fact-check: How many children are in poverty due to the two-child benefit cap? - Full Fact
Verdict: incorrect. a charity estimated earlier this year that 1.8 million children were affected by the cap, but not all of these children are in poverty. its latest estimate is that 1.6 million children are affected by the cap, of whom 300,000 would be lifted out of poverty were it abolished.
Organisation: Full Fact
Author: Hannah Smith
Date published: 2024-07-17T00:00:00