What is the two-child benefit cap?

There has been discussion about the two-child benefit cap recently. But what it it?

It is nothing to do with child benefit. That is payable for every child you have, unless you earn more than £60,000.

The two-child limit relates to universal credit and tax credits. Those are for people on low incomes, working or not.

If you are getting these and have more than two children you will not receive payments for the additional children - although there are some exemptions.

Filmed and edited by Tink Llewellyn.

An earlier version of this video wrongly referred to a cap on child benefit, rather than the two-child benefit cap for universal credit and tax credits. It has now been corrected.