Educational Secretary Bridget Phillipson said the government was planning to remove the performance ceiling for two children, but warned that it would cost a lot of money. ”
Addressing the BBC, the minister said that politics – which prevents most families from claiming services tested on the means for any third or additional children born after April 2017 – had pushed people into poverty.
However, she said that “trying to relax and changing the social security system is not easy”, adding that the price would be important.
The government is expected to announce its decision on the ceiling in the fall, when it publishes its poverty strategy for children.
Phillipson, as well as the secretary of work and pensions Liz Kendall, leads the working group on children’s poverty in the strategy. It was to be published in the spring but was now delayed until the fall.
The working group was launched last year, at a time when the government was invited by the SNP and certain Labor deputies to remove the ceiling.
Pressure from labor deputies on the problem – as well as well-being cuts – have intensified since the poor work performance in local elections earlier this year.
Phillipson told the BBC that the working group looked at the cap and “nothing is outside the table”.
She said that a Labor government would never have introduced the ceiling, adding: “The governments of work make different choices, we have different priorities, and you will see it going later this year.”
Although she pointed out that the cost of eliminating the ceiling would be high, she added that the “cost of inaction” is also incredibly high because this cicits the children’s chances of life in this country “.
In a speech on Monday, the head of the United Kingdom’s reform, Nigel Farage, promised to raise the ceiling if his party enters the government.
He said it was “the right thing to do”, adding: “Not because we support a culture of advantages, but because we think that for workers less well paid, it really makes children a little easier for them.”
The Conservative Shadow Chancellor Mel Stride defended politics, which was introduced by his party in 2017.
“Many people from top to bottom of the country are going through these difficult choices and often sacrifices, in order to have a large family,” he told the BBC.
“I do not think that it is unreasonable in these circumstances of having a ceiling at the level of the two children for those who otherwise count on services for other children.”
The Liberal Democrats and the Green Party have both committed to getting rid of the ceiling of their electoral manifests.
The spokesperson for the Liberal Democratic Treasury, Daisy Cooper, said: “Bringing the hope in front of desperate parents is inexcusable. Continue to punish the children just to be born is unforgivable.
“The public is fed up with a government that does not come to change-the workforce must learn about turns faster.”
About 1.6 million children live in a household affected by the ceiling, according to statistics from the Ministry of Labor and Pensions.
The reflection group of the Resolution Foundation says The removal of the policy would cost 3.5 billion pounds sterling and would bring out 470,000 children from poverty.
