Opposition leader Matthew O’Toole said the motion is one of a suite introduced on the second Opposition Day to target poverty.
Northern Ireland’s administration is to be urged to remove the two-child limit for benefits payments as a key move to tackle childhood poverty.
SDLP leader Colum Eastwood , with South Belfast MP Claire Hanna and Opposition leader Matthew O’Toole at the first Opposition Day at Stormont Tuesday will be the second Opposition Day this mandate following the resumption of devolved government earlier this year. From 2017, families in receipt of Universal Credit no longer receive an additional amount for a third or subsequent child born on or after April 6 2017 unless special circumstances apply.
The Opposition has suggested this could be covered by the increased revenue from the rates rise, as well as reforming rates relief for vacant non-domestic property.
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