IDS in Bid to Tax Disability Cash and Cap Child Benefit

Benefits for the disabled could be taxed and child benefit capped for those with more than two children under plans to further cut the welfare bill. Iain Duncan Smith is arguing that disabled benefits should be increased for the poor and subsidised by taxing the handouts for better-off claimants. He is also pressing a reluctant David Cameron and George Osborne to restrict child benefit to two children for new claimants. As well as saving money, he believes it would encourage welfare claimants to have smaller families. Read more on the Sunday Times website.