Two-child limit on benefits: are you going to be affected?

From Thursday (April 6) child tax credits and universal credit across the UK will be restricted to the first two children in a family.It intends the two-child restriction to influence the behaviour of less well-off families by making them think twice about having a third child.Critics say that at current birth rates, 100,000 third or subsequent children will not qualify for tax credit support over the next 12 months, inflating child poverty figures by 10% by 2020.