The government will be forced to fight for its controversial housing benefit reforms in court, after a child poverty charity won the right to challenge their legality. Government lawyers are due to appear at the High Court to defend caps on local housing allowance introduced on 1 April. A judge granted the Child Poverty Action Group a fast-track judicial review into the restrictions at a hearing in May. If CPAG wins, the reforms will be ruled unlawful. The DWP will be expected to present evidence justifying the reforms. The information its lawyers provide will feed into the judicial review at the end of July. CPAG is challenging the national cap on LHA, paid to tenants in the private rented sector, and a restriction preventing payments exceeding the cost of renting a four-bed home, regardless of household size. Read more on Inside Housing.
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