Social Security System Debate
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Baroness Eaton
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Social Security System
Baroness Eaton Excerpts(2 years, 8 months ago)
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Baroness Eaton (Con)
My Lords, can my noble friend say why the child element of UC is limited to the first two children?
Baroness Stedman-Scott (Con)
As I have said many times—this subject comes up regularly—a benefits structure that adjusts automatically to family size is unsustainable. We recognise that some claimants are not able to make the same choices about the number of children in their family, and we have exceptions to protect certain groups. We continue to take action to help families with the cost of living. At the moment, as I have said before, there are no plans to change the two-child limit.