Use if your client owns a property which they have had to move out of because of domestic abuse. This tool checks if the value of the property can be ignored when working out your client's universal credit (UC) entitlement.
This tool helps you create a note to request a mandatory reconsideration of the DWP’s decision not to base the universal credit housing costs element on the whole of the eligible rent for a property after a joint tenant moves out.
This tool helps you draft a note to put in your client's universal credit (UC) journal requesting a mandatory reconsideration of the DWP's decision to impose a sanction on them.
Use this tool to help you to prepare a request for a mandatory reconsideration of the DWP's decision that your client does not have limited capability for work or that they do not have limited capability for work and work-related activity.
Use this template to challenge the DWP's refusal to amend your client's claimant commitment to include a work-focused interview only requirement because they have a child aged one year, and to challenge any unlawful sanctions imposed as a result of inappropriate conditionality.
Use this template to challenge the DWP's refusal to depart from the Real Time Information system when your client has provided evidence of their earnings showing that the RTI is wrong.
This template can be used to challenge the DWP's refusal to amend your client's claimant commitment to include no work-related requirements because they have a baby aged under 1 year, and to challenge any unlawful sanctions imposed as a result of inappropriate conditionality.
Use this template to challenge the DWP's termination of old style contributory ESA after 365 days (due to time limiting for claimants with limited capability for work, LCW) if the claimant's capability for work (and therefore whether the claimant has LCWRA, and whether the claimant has entitlement to income related ESA) was not determined first.
Use this template to challenge the DWP’s failure to include the limited capability for work related activity (LCWRA) element in a claimant's new award of universal credit (UC) when the claimant was in receipt of employment and support allowance (ESA) including the support component immediately before they claimed UC.
Use this template in the case of a DWP failure to action an SR1 (formally DS1500) to treat a claimant as having limited capability for work and work-related activity (LCWRA) from start of their universal credit (UC) award (or terminal diagnosis if later) including failure to include the LCWRA element from the outset and informing the claimant they need to wait for a work capability assessment.
Use this template to challenge the DWP's requirement that a claimant accept a claimant commitment for universal credit (UC), when an SR1 (formerly DS1500) has been provided that confirms the claimant's terminal illness.
Use this template to challenge the absence of any 'protection on a death' for a bereaved pension credit claimant, who was the working age partner in a mixed age couple and was exempt from the bedroom tax while their pension age partner was alive, and has had to claim universal credit (UC) as a result of their bereavement.
