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To: Parliament
Emergency Child Benefit increase during Covid-19
Increase child benefit to £100 per month to immediately help all children in the UK, enabling those whose school meals and food bank services have been interrupted to feed their families.
Why is this important?
Parental unemployment, furloughed wages, Universal Credit delays, interrupted public transport, food bank shortages and missed free school meals mean that children are going hungry unnecessarily. All children have a parent who receives child benefit already; increased payments would require very little administration to implement and would immediately allow families to buy food, pay for fuel for cooking, washing and laundry.
