Two 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 conceived non-consensually, but this only applies to third or subsequent children in a household.
