1. Impacto y Urgencia de la Abolición.
Expertos y organizaciones benéficas coinciden en que la eliminación total del límite de dos hijos es la forma más rápida y efectiva de sacar a cientos de miles de niños de la pobreza, ya que la política empuja a más de cien niños a la pobreza cada día.
- Scrapping the two-child limit in full should be an obvious step in the child poverty strategy. Most of the forecast rise in child poverty this parliament comes from larger families, and scrapping the policy would lift 500,00 children out of poverty almost overnight.
- Ending the two child benefit cap would lift 540k children over the absolute poverty line. Its the most cost effective way of lifting child poverty.
- Every day, 109 children are pushed into poverty because of the two-child limit.
- The two-child benefit cap is a ticking time bomb on child poverty. Each year another 40,00 children are pushed into poverty by it.
2. El Límite de Dos Hijos como Elección Política y Moral.
La política es ampliamente criticada por ser "cruel" e "inmoral", y se argumenta que la pobreza infantil es una consecuencia directa de las decisiones políticas. Figuras prominentes, incluido el ex primer ministro Gordon Brown, han instado al gobierno a actuar de inmediato para revertir esta situación.
- Child poverty is not an inevitability it is a consequence of political choices.
- The two-child benefit cap is an immoral policy that willingly pushes thousands of children into poverty.
- Children in england living in almost dickensian levels of poverty childrens commissioner says any labour strategy to tackle deprivation must scrap the two-child benefit cap.
- The maintenance of the cruel two child benefit cap condemns a growing number of families children to poverty.
3. Alternativas y Costo-Efectividad.
Se ha demostrado que las soluciones parciales, como un límite de tres hijos o exenciones para familias trabajadoras, son menos eficientes y dejarían a cientos de miles de niños en la pobreza. La abolición total se considera la medida más rentable, con beneficios económicos a largo plazo que superan los costos iniciales.
- Only full abolition of two-child benefit cap will substantially cut poverty, says . With one change in the autumn budget, this government could lift hundreds of thousands of kids out of poverty. And it would have serious economic benefits.
- We found that scrapping the two-child limit entirely would reduce the cost of child poverty by 3.2bn a year.
- None of the options rumoured to be on the table is an acceptable long-term solution. They would leave between 120k and 350k more children in poverty compared to fully scrapping the two-child limit.
- Scrapping the two-child benefit cap costs about 3bn a year, or about 0.2 of government spending. Listing it would immediately take 400,00 children out of poverty.