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Scrapping the two child limit could boost local economies, new figures suggest

SCRAPPING the two-child limit would lift thousands of children out of poverty and inject millions into local economies, new figures revealed today.

End Child Poverty Coalition released new data ahead of the eighth anniversary of the implementation of the two-child limit to benefit payments on Sunday.

It found that on average, one in nine children live in a family affected by the two-child limit.

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