Households with several children living in the private rented sector will be the hardest hit in the benefits shake-up, losing up to £1,250 a year, according to another flurry of research on the new Universal Credit.
The latest study, this time a joint study by the Institute of Fiscal Studies and the Family and Parenting Institute, says households with children could experience a 4.2% drop in income by 2015.
Under the shake-up, the Government will cap the total amount of benefits that each family can claim at £26,000.
Dr Katherine Rake, chief executive of the Family and Parenting Institute, said: “These figures reveal the full extent to which families with children are shouldering the burden of austerity. Having children has always been expensive. But now many families with children face an extra penalty of more than £1,000.
“In light of this new evidence on families with more than three children and those living in the private rental sector, we believe that the Government urgently needs to look again at the damaging impact of cuts to Local Housing Allowance and the housing benefit cap.”
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As it should be.
People should be responsible for what they bring into this world. Or be made to. If they cant, then the children welfare should come first - have them adopted by people who are prepared to make the sacrifices for them.
The alternative is to be as productive at work as in bed.
People should not be having children they can not afford and expect the tax payer to foot the bill however. The changes should only apply to new people anyone in the system should be exampt with the understanding that if they have more children they will not get a penny more