What is the two-child benefit cap and how could it change?

If you receive universal credit or tax credits then, generally, you won’t be paid any additional benefit if you have or had a third or subsequent child born after 6 April 2017.

If you have, for example, four children born before that date, then you will still receive the additional payments. That relates to children aged under 16, or young people aged under 20 who are in full-time education or training.

There are other exceptions.

If a parent, or parents, have one child, and the next are twins or triplets, then a claim can be made for all these children.

Claims can also be made if children are born after rape, or from a coercive relationship. Payments can also go to children who are adopted, in your care rather than local authority care, or are a child of your child.