{"id":92406,"date":"2020-05-05T07:30:00","date_gmt":"2020-05-05T11:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=92406"},"modified":"2020-05-05T06:46:16","modified_gmt":"2020-05-05T10:46:16","slug":"mirror","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=92406","title":{"rendered":"(Mirror) Coronavirus: 60,000 families forced onto Universal Credit ‘to be hit’ by two child limit"},"content":{"rendered":"

Around 60,000 families forced onto Universal Credit by Covid-19 could have essential support restricted by the government’s hated ‘two-child limit’.<\/p>\n

Families who have to claim the benefit because of job losses and illness will find they are denied support for more than two children.<\/p>\n

Ministers have refused to scrap the policy, even temporarily during the coronavirus crisis….<\/p>\n

A new report by the Church of England and Child Poverty Action Group said the virus crisis had exposed the injustice of the policy, which mostly hits working families.<\/p>\n

Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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60,000 families forced onto Universal Credit by coronavirus ‘to be hit’ by two child limithttps:\/\/t.co\/RYQayoOmGK<\/a> pic.twitter.com\/yIytrcTJMd<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Mirror Politics (@MirrorPolitics) May 4, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n