Universal Credit - mitigation of the two-child limit: consultation

Footnotes

1 UK Poverty 2025: The essential guide to understanding poverty in the UK | Joseph Rowntree Foundation

2 Universal Credit: What Universal Credit is - GOV.UK

3 Stat-Xplore - Home

4 Mitigating the two-child limit and the Scottish Budget - January 2025

5 Scottish Budget 2025 to 2026 - gov.scot

6 Mitigating the two-child limit and the Scottish Budget - January 2025

7 The IFS Green Budget 2016

8 Scottish Child Payment and the labour market - gov.scot

9 Mitigating the two-child limit and the Scottish Budget | Scottish Fiscal Commission

10 Take-Up Strategy Update - Take-up rates of Scottish benefits: November 2024 - gov.scot

11 Every child, every chance: tackling child poverty delivery plan 2018-2022 - gov.scot

12 Social Security Scotland - Client Survey: Five Family Payments (December – March 2024)

13 Note that as the age of the children does not breakdown further some of these 7 year olds would have been born prior to the policy coming into place. Additionally the 30,535 figure includes those claims that while active did not receive a payment in August.

14 Stat-Xplore - Home

15 Best Start, Bright Futures: tackling child poverty delivery plan 2022 to 2026 - gov.scot

16 Universal Credit and Child Tax Credit claimants: statistics related to the policy to provide support for a maximum of 2 children - April 2024