Reversal of the UK Government’s Two-child Benefit Cap (Amendment 1)
S6M-10716.1: As an amendment to motion S5M-10716 in the name of Shirley-Anne Somerville (Reversal of the UK Government’s Two-child Benefit Cap), insert at end "; notes that an estimated two thirds of children in poverty live in working households, 10% of all employees in Scotland are stuck in low pay, and that 72% of that group are women, and welcomes, therefore, the proposal for a New Deal for Working People, which has been endorsed by the TUC and includes plans to ban zero-hours contracts, outlaw fire and rehire practices, and raise the minimum wage in order to tackle insecure work and to make sure that work pays as a key route to ending poverty."

Original motion(S6M-10716):
That the Parliament calls on the UK Government to scrap the punitive two-child limit, which limits the amount of Universal Credit and Child Tax Credit a family can receive and undermines action to reduce child poverty in Scotland.