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Update on abolition of the two-child limit in universal credit, a look at how this interacts with the benefit cap, and latest on child benefit.

Read about what we’ve been up to this year and how your submissions have supported our work.

Recently, we have been hearing about UC claimants who are undergoing cancer treatment and therefore unable to work not being treated as having LCWRA due to being ineligible for a work capability assessment. As a result, they are stuck in an in inappropriate conditionality group and losing out financially. This Early Warning System bulletin looks at where the DWP is going wrong and how advisers might help claimants in this situation.