Case name JS and Others v Secretary of State for Work and Pensions Case number (2013) EWHC 3350
Judge Lord Justice Elias and Mr Justice Bean
Location High Court of Justice
The Welfare Reform Act 2012 introduced the "benefit cap" to limit the amount of welfare benefits that a recipient could receive.
The claimants (the mother and youngest child of three separate single-parent families) submitted that due to their circumstances they would suffer harsh consequences as a result of the cap and contended that many other lone parents will be affected. The challenge was to the 2012 regulations and in particular the inclusion of child benefit, child tax credit and housing benefit in the list of prescribed benefits contained in regulation 75G; or alternatively the failure to include large families, especially lone parents with several children at home, among the exceptions to the cap.
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