Child Poverty Action Group v Secretary of State for Work and Pensions [2011] EWHC 2616 (Admin)

Date
13 October 2011

Link to judgment
http://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWHC/Admin/2011/2616.html

Discrimination grounds
Race, gender

Summary of case
Challenge to new rules for calculating eligibility for housing benefit.

Outcome
The Court decided that the introduction of maximum weekly caps on the amount of local housing allowance is not ultra vires and there was no failure to comply with the Race and Gender Equality Duties.

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