Write to your MP and ask them to end the two child benefit cap.

One third of children in the UK now grow up in poverty. This didn’t happen by chance. 

Political decisions got us into this dire situation and now we need the newly elected government to be bold and ambitious to get us out.  

We need your help to end child poverty, ask your MP today to scrap the deplorable two child benefit cap and lift hundreds of thousands of children out of poverty. 

No one can flourish when they're hungry, and every child deserves to thrive. Demand the Government takes action today.

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Dear [NAME], 

End the two child benefit cap 

One third of children in the UK now grow up in poverty. This didn’t happen by chance. It has happened as the result of deliberate political choices, which have left children, and the women who care for them in shocking levels of destitution and poverty. 

Since 2010 the poorest women have lost on average £3,348 per year, a 26% reduction of their income. Black women have lost £2,498 per year, lone parents have lost around £7,000 per year and Disabled women have lost £2,553 per year on average. 

Will you use your first weeks of this Parliament to ask that the new government take action to reverse this trend? No one can thrive when they’re hungry, when they don’t have secure housing or they can’t afford to heat their home.

Lifting the two child benefit cap would remove 300,000 children from poverty, and protect hundreds of thousands more from destitution. The social benefits of the policy would save tens of billions of pounds, and it would help to ensure everyone has what they need to thrive.

Poverty robs people of joy, health and opportunity. It is an entirely preventable tragedy that affects millions of people across the UK. I earnestly believe that this Government can do better. As your constituent I’m asking you to please take action to lift the two child benefit cap today. 

In solidarity, 

[YOUR NAME]

[YOUR ADDRESS]