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By Head of Public Affairs Alexis Darby

The Chancellor Rachel Reeves MP announced in the Autumn Budget that, from April 2026, the Government will remove the two-child benefit cap. Introduced in 2017, the cap blocked Universal Credit payments for third and subsequent children born after 6 April 2017. 

This change marks one of the most significant reversals of welfare policy in a decade - particularly for families in the North of England, where the impact of austerity and rising living costs…