Lifting the two-child benefit cap would "help a lot" to pay for everyday essentials, a mum-of-three in Bradford has said. There has been speculation that Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Benefits for around 560,000 families are set to rise by an average of £5,310 after the scrapping of the two-child benefit cap.

In 2013, the Conservative chancellor George Osborne introduced an overall benefits cap. It was designed to ensure that no household on out-of-work benefits (jobseeker’s allowance, housing benefit, ...