COVID-19 and low-income families: the government must lift the benefit cap and remove the two-child limit

Patrick, Ruth, Reeves, Aaron ORCID: 0000-0001-9114-965X and Stewart, Kitty ORCID: 0000-0001-7744-8741 (2020) COVID-19 and low-income families: the government must lift the benefit cap and remove the two-child limit. British Politics and Policy at LSE (12 May 2020). Blog Entry.

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Abstract

The government has done little to directly support families with children in the light of COVID-19, write Ruth Patrick, Aaron Reeves, and Kitty Stewart. This oversight, together with existing welfare arrangements, render families most in need of help unable to get it.

Item Type:	Online resource (Blog Entry)
Official URL:	https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/politicsandpolicy/
Additional Information:	© 2020 The Authors
Divisions:	Social Policy
Subjects:	R Medicine > RA Public aspects of medicine > RA0421 Public health. Hygiene. Preventive Medicine H Social Sciences > HV Social pathology. Social and public welfare. Criminology H Social Sciences > HQ The family. Marriage. Woman J Political Science > JN Political institutions (Europe) > JN101 Great Britain H Social Sciences > HJ Public Finance
Date Deposited:	10 Jun 2020 10:03
Last Modified:	01 Nov 2024 04:46
URI:	http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/104920

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