The cap has been ruled discriminatory and unlawful for full-time carers of disabled adult relatives,yet Iain Duncan Smith seems bent on pursuing this senseless policyFor a compelling insight into the shambolic catastrophe that is the benefit cap, it’s worth reading last week’s landmark court judgment. It explains not only why the £500-a-week cap unlawfully discriminates against disabled people in the way it treats full-time carers of disabled adult relatives, and but also why it is such an abysmal piece of policy.
Mr Justice Collins’s judgment finds – with thinly disguised contempt – that the work and pensions secretary,Iain Duncan Smith, was erroneous to insist this cohort of carers should be covered by the cap (unlike full-time carers of a disabled dependent child or partner, or who are exempt). Not merely erroneous,he adds, but unreasonably and unjustifiably so.
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Source: theguardian.com