- Clear all
- High Court (Admin Court)
- Concluded
- Great Britain
- Indirect discrimination
- Article 14: Protection from discrimination in respect of these rights and freedoms
- International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR)
- Great Britain
- Intervention (section 30 of the Equality Act 2006)
- Sex
Challenging the ‘two-child limit’ rule (R (on the application of SC and CB and their children) v Secretary of State for Work and Pensions)
The Welfare Reform and Work Act 2016 provides that child tax credit and its replacement universal credit will not be payable to any 3rd or subsequent children in a family born after 6th April 2017 (subject to some exceptions). This is known as the ‘two child rule’.
SC and CB each had a baby after 6th April 2017 and do not receive any tax credits for those children.