CYP Now - Coronavirus: Sunak urged to increase child benefit rate

Child benefit should be increased by £10 per child per week to help ease financial pressures on families caused by the coronavirus crisis, a coalition of children’s organisations has said.

Charities have called on Chancellor Rishi Sunak to increase child benefits. Picture: Parliament UK

The National Children’s Bureau (NCB), one of more than 60 bodies that have come together to lobby the government, said the increase was needed to help parents facing reduced income cover the basic costs of raising their children.

The organisation said emergency support was required to help provide for children now at home full-time and before new income protection measures announced by the Chancellor come into effect.

An open letter to Rishi Sunak published by the coalition, which includes organisations such as The Children’s Society, Action for Children and The Poverty Alliance, said: “We welcome the steps taken so far to protect incomes in this time of great uncertainty.

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