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Nov 19, 2025 • via The Telegraph

Welfare Systems Shrink Birth Rates Among the Employed

£141 Billion in Benefits Funds Larger Families on Claims, Deterring Taxpayers from Parenthood

UK welfare policies favor multi-child benefit households over working parents, inverting incentives and contributing to fertility declines among the middle class. This sustains intergenerational dependency amid fiscal strain.

Nov 11, 2025 • via BBC News

Benefit Caps Lift, But Tax Shields Crack

£3.6 Billion to Free 630,000 Children from Poverty

Rachel Reeves plans to scrap the two-child benefit limit, easing child poverty at a steep cost that forces breaches of Labour's tax pledges. This trade-off exposes ongoing fiscal fragility across governments.