The issue focused on by the UK's High Court is whether the legal status of child benefit should be changed.The court said that it had been clear from the past that "there is an essential link between child benefit and child poverty". It said that it was "not clear" how to draw the line between child benefit and child poverty.The court said that it had been important to consider the issue in an "open and transparent" way. It said that it had also found that an approach that might have been