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'If two-child benefit cap is removed, I won't have to keep proving I was sexually assaulted'

'If two-child benefit cap is removed, I won't have to keep proving I was sexually assaulted'

If Chancellor Rachel Reeves scraps the two-child limit in her upcoming budget, survivors like Maria will no longer face barbaric 'rape clause'

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