{"id":84473,"date":"2026-02-03T17:05:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-03T17:05:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=84473"},"modified":"2026-02-03T17:06:12","modified_gmt":"2026-02-03T17:06:12","slug":"labour-scrapping-two-child-benefit-cap-will-cost-13-6bn-handing-jobless-britons-25000-windfall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2026\/02\/03\/labour-scrapping-two-child-benefit-cap-will-cost-13-6bn-handing-jobless-britons-25000-windfall\/","title":{"rendered":"Labour scrapping two-child benefit cap will cost \u00a313.6bn, handing jobless Britons \u00a325,000 windfall"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-52419\" src=\"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/visiting-family-300x200.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/visiting-family-300x200.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/visiting-family-770x514.jpeg 770w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/visiting-family.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/visiting-family-360x240.jpeg 360w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Labour ministers are set to introduce legislation on Tuesday that will abolish the two-child benefit cap, a move expected to cost \u00a313.6billion over the next five years. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/money\/other\/labour-scrapping-two-child-benefit-cap-will-cost-13-6bn-handing-jobless-britons-25-000-windfall\/ar-AA1Vyn3v?ocid=msedgntp&amp;pc=HCTS&amp;cvid=6982283b4b47454b94d1545e16b7fa7a&amp;ei=33\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>Labour ministers are set to introduce legislation on Tuesday that will abolish the two-child benefit cap, a move expected to cost \u00a313.6billion&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":64064,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[200],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-84473","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cost-of-living-crisis"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/UK-Labour-party.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84473","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84473"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84473\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":84474,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84473\/revisions\/84474"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/64064"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}