Use this template to challenge DWP's refusal to disregard your client's capital capital in the calculation of their universal credit (UC) award when that capital is comprised of arrears of income-related employment and support allowance (irESA) paid as a result of DWP’s acceptance of official error.
Use this template to challenge the DWP's decision to 'close', ie, refuse your client's claim for universal credit (UC) because they do not satisfy the habitual residence test (HRT) when your client is a refugee and so exempt from the HRT.
Use this template to challenge the DWP’s failure, when the UK is not competent to pay your client personal independence payment (PIP), to pass your client's claim to the state which is competent to pay disability benefits without delay contrary to Regulation (EC) No 883/2004 and DWP guidance.
If you are getting universal credit (UC) and are reporting a change in your circumstances that is advantageous to you after the end of the assessment period in which the change happened, but have good reasons for the delay in reporting it, you can use this tool to create a note for your UC online journal. The note asks that the supersession decision resulting from the change takes effect from the start of the assessment period in which the change occurred, rather than from the start of the assessment period in which you reported the change.
Use this tool to help you draft an appeal submission if you have appealed against the DWP's decision on your entitlement to PIP because you disagree with the number of points the DWP has awarded you.
Use this template to challenge the DWP's decision to 'close', ie, refuse your client's claim for universal credit (UC) because they do not satisfy the habitual residence test (HRT) when your client is a refugee and so exempt from the HRT.
Use this template appeal submission to argue you have a right of appeal against a decision when the DWP has refused to carry out a mandatory reconsideration (MR) of the decision on the grounds that your MR request was late.
This template challenges the rule which treats a claimant who migrates to universal credit (UC) from employment and support allowance (ESA) (and whose ESA included both income-related and contributory ESA) as if they had received new-style ESA for the whole of the first UC assessment period. It does so on human rights discrimination grounds because, compared to a claimant who was getting income-related ESA only, such a claimant will be worse off in their first assessment period on UC.
Use this template if your client's universal credit (UC) transitional element has been eroded because their housing costs element has increased when the increase in the housing costs element has been caused by the client being allowed an additional bedroom for a non-resident carer (that is they meet the 'overnight care condition') and has resulted in the bedroom tax no longer applying or being reduced.
Use this template when a student who is not a qualifying young person, is not in advanced education, and is not receiving student finance is refused universal credit (UC) without the DWP having considered whether their education is compatible with their work-related requirements.
Use this template to argue that you have a valid right of appeal against a DWP decision despite the DWP not providing a mandatory reconsideration notice if the DWP has refused to revise the decision (for example by posting a note in a universal credit journal stating that a decision will not be changed).
Use this template for a claimant who was granted leave under the Ukrainian scheme following the invasion of Ukraine by Russian forces in 2022 and who subsequently was granted pre-settled status under the EU Settlement Scheme and as a consequence had their universal credit (UC) award ended on the ground that they no longer satisfy the habitual residence test.
