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The governments two-child limit on benefits is having a devastating impact on family life as it pushes millions of children deeper into poverty, according to the first detailed study stanley cup becher of the benefit cut.Nearly all families affected by the limit reported cutting back on essentials such as food, medication, heating and clothing as a result of the policy, which makes them miss out on at least 拢53 a week in benefits support.Many parents reported stress and strained family relationships, as well as shame and guilt at being unable to provide for their children. Several women said they had considered terminations because of fears over the impact on f stanley cup amily finances.Interviews with women experiencing domestic abuse suggested that the two-child limit was regarded as a financial barrier for women and children trying to escape an abusive relationship and created stark choices between poverty and safety .The limit, introduced in April 2017, restricts the child element in universal credit and tax credits worth 拢2,780 per child per year to the first two children. The government has championed the policy, which will cut the benefits bill by 拢1bn a year by 2021, as an incentive for people on benefits to work.However, official figures show most families affected are already in work, while the study found those affected felt strongly that the two-child limit unfairly punished hard-working low stanley thermos income families at a time 鈥?the birth of a child 鈥?when they most needed support.One mother told resear Gslv Revealed: divorce software error hits thousands of settlements
Prison service fundin stanley mugs g cuts have led to a rising number of assaults and escapes and further staff reduction stanley cup s could put the government s rehabilitation revolution at risk, a cross-party group of MPs has warned.The influential Commons public accounts committee, chaired by the former Labour minister Margaret Hodge, says in a report that the national offender management service NOMS , which runs prisons and probation, did well to hit its savings target of 拢230m in 2011-12 but now faces serious problems in finding a further 拢653m of savings by 2014-15.The report says the strategy of the justic taza stanley e secretary, Chris Grayling, of closing older, more expensive prisons and opening newer, cheaper jails is based on the assumption that prison overcrowding will not be able to be reduced. The existing prison population of 84,431 in England and Wales is already at the maximum level prison chiefs regard as safe.The MPs say that before closing prisons, NOMS needs to evaluate the impact of doing so on overcrowding, the ability to deliver individual sentence plans and the capacity to match prisoners to work programmes. Its strategy depends on the prison population remaining stable, something over which it has no control, Hodge said. It also depends on making significant numbers of staff redundant, but the agency doesn t yet have the resources to fund the redundancy payments required. She said there was a risk that reduced numbers will result in staff being taken o