The Government has launched an appeal against a ruling
that its controversial benefits cap unlawfully discriminates against lone
parents with children under two. The cap, which came into force last year,
limits the total amount of benefits a household can receive to £23,000 a year
in London and £20,000 elsewhere. But in June, a High Court Judge said the
benefit cap was disproportionately affecting lone parents, and causing “real
misery to no good purpose". Read more on the Independent website.
‘Those two weeks felt how the world should be’: the young single mums who
took on the housing crisis – and won
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When a group of teenage mothers were evicted from their homeless hostel,
Focus E15, they took over a tower block of empty council flats in protest.
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