Use this template when your client's universal credit (UC) claim has been 'closed' because your client did not attend the initial evidence meeting to prove their identity.
Use this template appeal submission for a client who has transferred to universal credit (UC) from child tax credit (CTC) under the managed migration process if, when calculating entitlement to the UC transitional element, the DWP wrongly included a child element in the ‘indicative UC amount’ for a young person experiencing an interruption to their education and for whom your client was getting CTC.
Use this tool to check if your immigration status means you are defined as a 'person subject to immigration control' and therefore excluded from entitlement to many social security benefits.
Use this tool to work out which work-related requirements, if any, should apply to you in connection with your universal credit claim. The tool also gives you the legal basis of those requirements.
Use this tool to create a note for your client giving step-by-step instructions on how to locate information on their universal credit (UC) online account and download it into a PDF so that they can share it with you.
Use this tool to help you draft a note for your universal credit (UC) journal to request a mandatory reconsideration of the decision not to award the housing element from the date of your universal credit claim.
Use this tool to check whether you have a right to reside that satisfies the right to reside requirement for benefit entitlement. It applies to EEA nationals and non-EEA nationals.
Use this tool to draft a mandatory reconsideration letter if your client disagrees with the DWP's decision on their entitlement to employment and support allowance (ESA) following a work capability assessment.
Use this tool to find out the date from which a limited capability for work-related activity element should be included in your universal credit maximum amount (for subscribers).
Use this tool to help you work out what your universal credit (UC) work-related requirements should be, and whether you should get the limited capability for work element or the limited capability for work-related activity element included in the calculation of your maximum universal credit, when you move from income-related employment and support allowance (ESA) to UC (for subscribers).
Use this tool to prepare a mandatory reconsideration letter if your client disagrees with the DWP's decision on their PIP entitlement, because you disagree with its decision on the number of points they score.
Use this tool to help you request a breakdown of the calculation of your client's universal credit (UC) transitional element if they have transferred to UC under the managed migration process. It creates a note for to add to the journal on your client's online UC account.
