{"id":109569,"date":"2019-08-01T23:41:21","date_gmt":"2019-08-01T16:41:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/two-child-benefits-limit-hurts-the-poor-letters\/"},"modified":"2019-08-02T00:05:26","modified_gmt":"2019-08-01T17:05:26","slug":"two-child-benefits-limit-hurts-the-poor-letters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/two-child-benefits-limit-hurts-the-poor-letters\/","title":{"rendered":"Two-child benefits limit hurts the poor | Letters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#013;<br \/>\nThe cap pushes a million children deeper below the poverty line, says Ruth Lister, while Paul Nicolson points out that the very rich can pass land on to their three or four children tax freeYour report (Ministers urged to scrap \u2018nasty\u2019 two-child limit on benefits, 1 August) rightly warns of the likely impact on overall levels of child poverty. However, given that the majority of children affected are already in poverty, perhaps even more worrying is the Child Poverty Action Group\u2019s estimate that a million children (over half of those concerned) will be pushed deeper below the poverty line.From the research you cite, it would seem that the two-child limit is undermining the government\u2019s own policies, including on domestic abuse, refugee integration and family conflict. Yet it is doing nothing to monitor its impact. This betrays the kind of irresponsible indifference to the effects of its policies on the wellbeing of some of the poorest children and families in our society, lambasted recently by the UN rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights.Ruth ListerLabour, House of Lords Continue reading&#8230;&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource : theguardian.com&#013;<br \/>\nRead more&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/society\/2019\/aug\/01\/two-child-benefits-limit-hurts-the-poor\" target=\"_blank\">Two-child benefits limit hurts the poor | Letters<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#013; The cap pushes a million children deeper below the poverty line, says Ruth Lister, while&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-109569","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-property-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p75ss1-svf","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":44201,"url":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/child-benefit-cuts-will-leave-some-high-earners-below-poverty-line\/","url_meta":{"origin":109569,"position":0},"title":"Child benefit cuts will leave some high earners &#039;below poverty line&#039;","date":"March 20, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"\r Child Poverty Action Group says child benefit cut will leave households regarded as well-off with \u00a310 a person a day on which to surviveGeorge Osborne's planned cut to child benefit will throw thousands of middle-class families below the official poverty line, according to analysis by the Child Poverty Action\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Property News&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":105985,"url":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/california-plan-aims-to-slash-states-child-poverty-rate-in-half-by-2039\/","url_meta":{"origin":109569,"position":1},"title":"California plan aims to slash state&#039;s child poverty rate in half by 2039","date":"April 12, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"\r A bill pending in the California Legislature sets an ambitious goal of cutting the state's child poverty rate in half by 2039 and also eliminating the number of kids in \"deep poverty\" by 2024.\r \r Source : cnbc.com\r Read more...California plan aims to slash state's child poverty rate in\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Property News&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":4881,"url":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/cost-of-raising-child-in-uk-increases-4-to-nearly-150000\/","url_meta":{"origin":109569,"position":2},"title":"Cost of raising child in UK increases 4% to nearly \u00a3150,000","date":"August 19, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"\r Child Poverty Action Group finds cost of raising child to age of 18 has increased well above rises in earnings and benefitsThe minimum cost of raising a child to 18 rose by 4% over the past year to almost \u00a3150,000 \u2013 well above rises in earnings and safety net\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Property News&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":172268,"url":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/nzs-troubling-new-oecd-ranking-in-rental-affordability-has-a-dire-flow-on-for-child-poverty-dr-claire-achmad-nz-childrens-commissioner\/","url_meta":{"origin":109569,"position":3},"title":"NZ\u2019s troubling new OECD ranking in rental affordability has a dire flow-on for child poverty &#8211; 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