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Two-child limit ‘entrenching poverty’, says new study
THE two-child limit on benefits is entrenching poverty and harming the life chances of children, according to a damning new report.
The Every Penny Counts study, commissioned from Unity Consulting by Scotland’s largest social housing provider, the Wheatley Group, looked at the often-devastating impact that the two-child cap can have on the finances of tenants.
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