Shocking figures showed that 900 women in the UK were forced to disclose that they had been raped in order to receive social security benefits.
Ms Rayner, MP for Ashton-underLyne, has now pledged that Labour would look into scrapping the benefit requirement as she committed the party's focus to tackling violence against women and girls.
The deputy Labour leader described the rape clause, which exists under the government's two-child cap on universal and child tax credits, as 'absolutely abhorrent.
The clause was introduced to enable women whose third or subsequent child was conceived through sexual assault to gain exemption from the limit. Other exemptions exist for multiple births and adoptions.
This story is from the August 29, 2023 edition of Manchester Evening News.
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