Universal Credit - mitigation of the two-child limit: consultation
The consultation seeks views on the Scottish Government's proposals to mitigate the two-child limit in Universal Credit in Scotland.
Footnotes
1 UK Poverty 2025: The essential guide to understanding poverty in the UK | Joseph Rowntree Foundation
2 Universal Credit: What Universal Credit is - GOV.UK
4 Mitigating the two-child limit and the Scottish Budget - January 2025
5 Scottish Budget 2025 to 2026 - gov.scot
6 Mitigating the two-child limit and the Scottish Budget - January 2025
8 Scottish Child Payment and the labour market - gov.scot
9 Mitigating the two-child limit and the Scottish Budget | Scottish Fiscal Commission
10 Take-Up Strategy Update - Take-up rates of Scottish benefits: November 2024 - gov.scot
11 Every child, every chance: tackling child poverty delivery plan 2018-2022 - gov.scot
12 Social Security Scotland - Client Survey: Five Family Payments (December – March 2024)
13 Note that as the age of the children does not breakdown further some of these 7 year olds would have been born prior to the policy coming into place. Additionally the 30,535 figure includes those claims that while active did not receive a payment in August.
15 Best Start, Bright Futures: tackling child poverty delivery plan 2022 to 2026 - gov.scot
Contact
Email: socialsecuritycl@gov.scot
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