{"id":78629,"date":"2025-05-25T14:46:25","date_gmt":"2025-05-25T14:46:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/will-keir-starmer-scrap-the-two-child-benefit-cap-bbc-newscast\/"},"modified":"2025-05-25T14:46:25","modified_gmt":"2025-05-25T14:46:25","slug":"will-keir-starmer-scrap-the-two-child-benefit-cap-bbc-newscast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/will-keir-starmer-scrap-the-two-child-benefit-cap-bbc-newscast\/","title":{"rendered":"Will Keir Starmer Scrap the Two-Child Benefit Cap? | BBC Newscast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today we look at whether the government is about to row back on another policy &#8211; the two-child benefit cap.<\/p>\n<p>It <!--more--> prevents parents from claiming universal credit or child tax credit for a third child, with a few exemptions.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to Laura Kuenssberg this morning, the Deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner refused to confirm whether it was going to be scrapped.<\/p>\n<p>Rayner also responded to a story in The Telegraph this week, after the paper got hold of a document that suggests she\u2019s is at odds with the chancellor over economic policy.<\/p>\n<p>And Laura, Paddy and Henry discuss how safe Kemi Badenoch is as leader of the opposition.<\/p>\n<p>You can now listen to Newscast on a smart speaker. If you want to listen, just say &#8220;Ask BBC Sounds to play Newscast\u201d. It works on most smart speakers.<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe here: <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/1rbfUog\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/bit.ly\/1rbfUog<\/a><\/p>\n<p>For more news, analysis and features visit: www.bbc.com\/news <\/p>\n<p>#BBCNews<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today we look at whether the government is about to row back on another policy &#8211; the two-child benefit cap. It<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":78642,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78629","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78629","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78629"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78629\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/78642"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}