Child benefit limit makes kids poor’
MPS seek end to cruel rule
LEONARDO Dicaprio pledges to help climate campaigner Greta Thunberg tackle global warming as they meet for the first time.
The Hollywood actor said he hopes that the Swedish schoolgirl’s “message is a
TORIES will today be urged by MPS to lift their cruel two-child benefit limit because it is creating more poor families.
The Commons Work and Pensions committee heard evidence that the system will plunge 266,000 extra children into poverty this year. And another 256,000 wake-up call to world leaders everywhere that the time for inaction is over”.
Leo, 44, posted snaps of the pair together online, saying Greta, 16, has “become a leader of our time”. He revealed: “She and I have made a commitment to support one another, in hopes of securing a brighter already living below the breadline will sink even deeper.
Josephine Tucker, of the Child Poverty Action Group, told MPS: “You couldn’t design a policy better to increase child poverty.”
Payments of tax credits, Housing Benefit or Universal Credit have been restricted to two future for our planet.” The Once Upon a Time in Hollywood star added: “History will judge us for what we do today to help guarantee that future generations can enjoy the planet we have taken for granted.
“It is because of Greta that I am optimistic about what the future holds.” children since April 2017, meaning parents are losing up to £2,780 for later kids.
The committee says the Government argument that families claiming benefits should face the s ame f i nancial choices about having children as those supporting themselves through work does not stack up. Chairman Frank Field said: “Any family except the superrich could fall foul of the twochild limit if their circumstances changed for the worse.”
MPS heard Muslim, Jewish, Pakistani, Bangladeshi and traveller communities are all disproportionately affected.