>> I'd imagine it's aim was to cut the benefit bill. Nothing more.
Both were justified as influencing behaviour. Within the last couple of weeks the old line about the two child rule making benefit claimants subject to the same 'affordability' issues as the rest of us has been trotted out. It boils my blood every time I hear it.
I must have spoken, over three and a half years on Help to Claim, to hundreds of newly single parents where the third child was perfectly affordable at conception and birth. And that's before you get to ill health....
I think headlines in the Mail etc for George Osborne were BIG part of the plan too .
Last edited by: Bromptonaut on Sun 15 Jan 23 at 16:30
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