{"id":77486,"date":"2019-01-18T17:30:56","date_gmt":"2019-01-18T22:30:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=77486"},"modified":"2019-01-18T17:48:55","modified_gmt":"2019-01-18T22:48:55","slug":"cen-bishop-paul-butler-welcomes-u-turn-on-universal-credit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=77486","title":{"rendered":"(CEN) Bishop Paul Butler welcomes U-turn on Universal Credit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>THE BISHOP of Durham, the Rt Rev Paul Butler, has welcomed Amber Rudd\u2019s announcement that the government will not extend the two-child limit on Universal Credit for children born before April 2017.<\/p>\n<p>New changes also include pressing ahead with a pilot to support 10,000 people from \u2018legacy benefits\u2019 on to Universal Credit in a test and learn approach.<\/p>\n<p>Bishop Butler, who speaks for the Church of England on issues relating to children and young people, said: \u201cAs a just and compassionate society, we believe that every child is a blessing and deserves to be treated equally.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo I very much welcome the announcement that the two-child limit policy will not be extended to children born before the policy came into effect in April 2017.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI also welcome the Government\u2019s mor<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.churchnewspaper.com\/55361\/archives\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>THE BISHOP of Durham, the Rt Rev Paul Butler, has welcomed Amber Rudd\u2019s announcement that the government will not extend the two-child limit on Universal Credit for children born before April 2017. New changes also include pressing ahead with a<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=77486\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[101,389,635,199,168,98,91,108],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77486","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-children","category-church-of-england-coe","category-coe-bishops","category-england-uk","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-marriage-family","category-personal-finance-investing","category-religion-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77486","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=77486"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77486\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77488,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77486\/revisions\/77488"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=77486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=77486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=77486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}