Consultation outcome

Universal Credit and Child Tax Credit: exceptions to the 2-child limit

This was published under the 2016 to 2019 May Conservative government
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Detail of outcome

We published the government response to this consultation on 20 January 2017. We received 82 responses. Around 50 were from organisations.


Original consultation

Summary

This consultation seeks evidence and views to inform the design of the exceptions and their implementation.

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Consultation description

皇冠体育app child element in Universal Credit and the individual element in Child Tax Credit will be payable to a maximum of 2 children from April 2017 ().

This consultation seeks evidence and views to inform the detailed design of the 4 exceptions that have been announced, and their implementation. It is not a consultation on the policy itself.

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Updates to this page

Published 21 October 2016
Last updated 20 January 2017 show all updates
  1. Published the government response to the consultation.

  2. First published.

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