Map shows how lifting two child benefit cap will benefit Merseyside children

350,000 children could be lifted out of poverty by the reversal of the two child benefit cap

The lifting of the two-child benefit limit will be felt by more than 40,000 children in Merseyside, as charities welcome Rachel Reeves’ move to scrap the cap. The two-child benefit limit prevents parents from claiming Child Tax Credit or Universal Credit for more than two children, and was introduced by the Conservative Government in 2017.

Announcing the move, which is estimated to cost £3bn a year by 2029-30, Reeves said her party did "not believe that the solution to a broken welfare system is to punish the most vulnerable children".

An estimated 350,000 children across the country could be lifted out of poverty as a result of lifting the cap, according to research by the End Child Poverty Coa