article_snippet: Single mothers have lost Single mothers Supreme Court challenge against the Government's £350-a-week benefit cap.
article_snippet: Two women forced into temporary accommodation after suffering domestic violence said the Benefit Cap violated Two women human rights.
article_snippet: Work and Pensions Secretary Iain Duncan Smith, pictured in Downing Street this morning claimed the Benefit Cap disproportionately hit women, especially those trying to escape violent partners.
article_snippet: The two lone parents went to Supreme Court, along with a representative child from each family.
article_snippet: The two lone parents lawyers argued that the Benefit Cap unjustifiably discriminated against abuse victims, who are predominantly women, and failed to have regard to the best interests of a representative child from each family.
article_snippet: The two lone parents said the Benefit Cap substantially reduces weekly income and puts the mothers at risk of losing the mothers safe homes.
article_snippet: Lady Hale - one ruled that the cap deprived some children of provision for the cap deprived some children of provision for their basic needs, which could not be in their best interests
article_snippet: basic needs, which could not be in the cap deprived some children of provision for their basic needs, which could not be in their best interests best interests.
article_snippet: the cap's aim of incentivising parents to seek work discriminated against lone parents as lone parents were the least able to do so, said Lady Hale - one.
highlights_snippet: Two women forced out of home by domestic violence said challenged cap .
  
highlights_snippet: Claimed cap disproportionately hit women trying to escape violent partners .