Labor By autumn, a major plan designed to bite hair poverty has delayed, in a trick Can leave thousands on the verge,
A few weeks after coming to power, The ministers said that they would consider digging “cruel” two-children profit cap In a bid to close a backbench labor rebellion.
But the overall strategy in which the policy was expected to include it has now been pushed back despite fear. Another rebellion But Welfare deduction Within weeks.
But designed to match the new time, with BudgetSome expectations have been raised that ministers can move forward and eliminate two-children cap, between the head between the head Kir Stamor The move is in favor, while his Chief of Staff Morgan McSin is less confident.
Both are under increasing pressure from labor backbenchers on this issue.
Benefits CAP affects more than 1.6 million children by limiting welfare payments to the first two children in most families.
The recently released new costs by the Child Poverty Action Group (CPAG) suggests that another 109 and children are pulled into poverty by policy every day.
The affected number will continue to grow until 2035 – when the first children were born under Bari 18.
Charity says that the most cost -effective way to get children out of poverty.
It was dumped, 350,000 children would be removed from poverty on a stroke, while the depth of poverty experienced by other 800,000 children would be reduced.
Along with pressure on CAP, no 10 is still facing a possible rebellion from Labor MPs next month, when hard welfare deductions including disability payments are due to being voted in the House of Commons, despite their partial e-turn on winter fuel payments earlier this week.
Downing Street has insisted that the government is taking a “comprehensive approach” for child poverty, including rolling out free breakfast clubs, increasing the number of affordable houses and increasing the minimum wages.
Lord John Bird, an anti-poverty-proclaim and founder of the big issue, criticized the delay and said that the ministers “only kicked the issue of child poverty in a long grass”.
He said: “The effect of his inaction will be serious. It is shameful that hair poverty is expected to fall, but under this labor government, 31.5 percent of children have increased significantly.
“We now need to take action in six months or a year time. I will continuously pursue my intervention of adding the goal of hair poverty for the good of children and bill the school bill with the power that our country has 4.3 million children living in poverty.”
But from Helen Barnard, Trusell TrustThe food bank that provides, said: “This can be good news. In fact, with measures to protect children, a delayed hair poverty strategy can be better … colliding with more than one deadline but falling less on the substance.”