But he said polls suggested the idea of setting the cap at two children popular with the public, many of whom had two children and did not understand why people who do not work should have things they did not.

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But the Children's Society, which supported the bishops' letter, has warned the cap could make more than 80, 000 children homeless.

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I'm told that support for setting the cap for benefits for families at two children is around three quarters of the population.

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City Hall proposed that families with children living in these areas be exempt from the housing cap and asked the government to ring-fence most of the Discretionary Housing Payments for London.

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Women's Aid says it is also concerned a cap on benefits may leave women with several children unable to use refuge services and that changes to the way housing benefit payments are paid could make it more difficult to collect rent.

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Take, for example, the fear of a child who has to endure the harrowing experience of a CT Scan.. In a TED talk in 2012, Kelley spoke about children who walk into the CT room and are handed a black felt pirate cap.

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Gingerbread, which campaigns for single parents, said the cuts would "push more families, both in and out of work, into poverty", while children's charity Barnardo's appealed to ministers to re-think the cap on benefit increases.

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The parents who joined the suit have children in districts where a majority, but not a supermajority, of voters favored exceeding the cap to lessen cuts.

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For instance, did you know that Obama wants a cap on Flexible Savings Accounts that many use to pay for care for their special needs children?

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