Social Security Benefits: Lone Parents
(asked on 27th February 2025) - View Source
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many single parent families are affected by the two-child limit for benefits by the gender of the parent.
This question was answered on 6th March 2025
In April 2024, the number of single parents on Universal Credit affected by the two-child policy, by gender, was as follows.
| Single parents household on Universal Credit affected by two-child policy (April 2024) |
Female | 201,000 |
Male | 5,000 |
Total | 206,000 |
Notes:
- The figures above are for Universal Credit only and do not include any households on Child Tax Credit affected by the policy.
- Figures are rounded to the nearest 1,000