Motion or amendment: Removing the Universal Credit Two-Child Limit - Amendment 1

Motion or amendment by Mr Maurice Bradley on 12 April 2024.

MLA: Mr Maurice Bradley
Party at the time: Democratic Unionist Party
Date: 12 April 2024
Type: Motion or amendment
Business: Motion Amendment · Private Members' Motion · to “Removing the Universal Credit Two-Child Limit”
Heading: Removing the Universal Credit Two-Child Limit - Amendment 1
Assembly identifier: Document 397292

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Removing the Universal Credit Two-Child Limit - Amendment 1
Leave out all after ‘Executive’ and insert:
‘but would place serious and recurring constraints on public spending; further notes the recommendations of the Independent Advisory Panel Report Welfare Mitigations Review, including the proposal to offset the two-child limit by introducing a Better Start Larger Families payment; and calls on the Minister for Communities to consider the merits of this proposal when meeting his statutory obligation to produce a report on the current, and future, operation of welfare mitigation schemes by the end of this financial year.’

95 words. Text as published by the Northern Ireland Assembly.