Mothers to take DWP to court over ‘inhumane’ benefit rules on non-consensual conception

High court approves judicial review of rules denying some women exception to two-child limit on universal creditTwo mothers who had children as a result of rape or coercion by former partners have been given permission to take the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) to court for being denied exception to the two-child limit on universal credit.The limit, which restricts support through universal credit (UC) to the first two children in a family, has an exception when a child has been conceive