Lisa White, 31, estimates she will get an extra £900 in benefits due to the changes in Rachel Reeves’ Budget which was announced on Wednesday.
14:15, 27 Nov 2025Updated 16:35, 27 Nov 2025
Lisa says the money will help her family(Image: Mirror)
A mum-of-five is due to get £2,770 a month in benefits after the two-child benefit cap was scrapped in this week’s Budget. Lisa White, 31, from Monmouth, south Wales raises five children between the ages of three and ten.
The stay-at-home-mum does so with her partner, David White, 35. She estimates she will get an extra £900 in benefits due to Rachel Reeves’ Budget.
The couple have been depending on Universal Credit and child benefits to get by since David was signed off work due to mental health issues, and currently get around £1,900 a month in benefits.
Lisa estimates she’ll get a total of £2,770 a month from April as a result of the changes made in the Autumn Budget, which was announced yesterday.
Lisa described the announcement as “very beneficial” for her children. She said it will allow her son, who loves football, to finally join an after-school club.
Lisa and her son Arlo(Image: Mirror)
The two-child benefit cap stopped parents from claiming universal credit or tax credit for their third children onwards, introduced by the Conservatives in 2017, reports the Mirror.
Lisa explained that her family have been struggling to get by due to the rising cost-of-living, with their food shops for the seven-person household becoming “astronomical”. Until now, Lisa and David had been unable to afford to send their children to any after-school activities, she says.
Lisa said: “The cap being removed will improve my kids’ lives and open so much up for them. Money has been tight since Dave had to leave work, and now the food bill is where the main chunk of our money goes. My son Marley, nine, has really wanted to do football club. Now we’ll be able to pay for him to do that.
Arlo suffers from such severe anxiety he can’t go to school and often won’t eat or sleep(Image: Mirror)
“And my daughter Layla, 10, loves dancing – and I can find a dance class for her. She’s amazing at it too. My other three are a bit younger but I’d like for them to do swimming lessons. The cap won’t be massively beneficial for me personally, financially, but it will let me see my children doing things that they love to do.”
Lisa said the cap removal will see an extra £900 being brought in for the family. She said it’s been positive to kids who before didn’t qualify for benefits now be “recognised as needing the same support as their older siblings.”
She added: “It will help in the long run – it’s nice to know that we’ll get some extra money to put into our kids’ lives.”