THE SNP has backed calls from a coalition of organisations urging the Labour Westminster government to scrap the two-child benefit cap.

The policy, which restricts universal credit and child tax credits to a family’s first two children, unless it can be proven any additional children are the result of rape, came into force in 2017 under the Tories.

The difference to families can be as much as £3,200 per child each year, a cost campaigners have argued is plunging almost half a million households below the poverty line.