Chancellor Rachel Reeves hinted earlier this month the government might scrap the two-child benefit limit in the upcoming Budget , a move that could lift 630,000 children out of poverty. The policy, which caps Universal Credit to the first two children in a family, is an unpopular measure initially introduced by the Tories who have been accused of driving hundreds of thousands of children into poverty. This comes as one family tells the Mirror the Department for Work and Pensions ( DWP ) needs