Labour ends the two-child benefit cap, and official data show that thousands of large families on Universal Credit receive additional support as a result. One reported figure is that about 2,200 households with a child element for eight or more children are recorded shortly after the cap is removed.
The sources describe the change as affecting families with eight or more children and the amount of additional annual support linked to the policy shift. The Daily Mail states that these households receive an extra £21,800 a year, tying the higher payment to the child-element eligibility that previously would have been limited by the cap.
Across the provided material, the emphasis is on the number of households and the scale of additional payments. No other outlet details are included here to independently corroborate the household count or the specific annual figure, so the available coverage focuses narrowly on these reported statistics rather than broader impacts or policy rationale.
