An increasing number of welfare rights decisions and actions are not open to appeal and are likely to be issues your clients face regularly. For example:
- Inappropriate Universal Credit conditionality
- Refusal of a Discretionary Housing Payment
- Refusal of a Local Support Scheme grant or loan
- Refusal of a Universal Credit Budgeting Advance
- Delays in providing Mandatory Reconsideration decisions
- Delays in making Right to Reside decisions
- Refusal to extend the time limit for making a mandatory reconsideration request
- The decision to recover an overpayment of benefit
- Refusal to pay UC without a National Insurance Number
- And more…
Judicial Review can be a way of challenging these otherwise unchallengeable decisions!