In an open letter to the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions Therese Coffey, the three commissioners state the policy – which prevents payments to the third and subsequent children born after April 2017 – is “inconsistent with the commitments made by the UK through the ratification of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child”.
In the letter, published in advance of a UK Parliament work and pensions committee hearing on efforts to tackle child poverty, the commissioners state their concern about “the ongoing negative impact of the two-child limit on child tax credit and universal credit and to urge you to reverse this policy”.
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