Use this template to argue you can appeal without first needing to request a mandatory reconsideration if the DWP decision notice does not state that you must ask the DWP to reconsider its decision before you can appeal.
Use this template appeal submission if your client gave incorrect details of their housing costs on their initial universal credit (UC) claim and the DWP only changed the award from the date of correction instead of from the start of the award.
Use this template appeal submission if your client did not report any housing costs on their initial universal credit (UC) claim and the DWP changed the award from the date of correction and not from the start of the award.
Use this appeal submission template for a claimant whose universal credit (UC) award included a transitional element and a carer element and who has their award superseded to include a limited capability for work-related activity (LCWRA) element, when this has resulted in the erosion of the transitional element by an amount equivalent to all of the LCWRA element.
Use this template to challenge a local authority's refusal of discretionary housing payment (DHP) because your client's rent is paid in full from their universal credit (UC) by a managed payment to the landlord, but your client is subject to the benefit cap and is left with insufficient UC for their living costs.
Use this template to challenge a local authority's failure to consider a claimant's disability, upcoming Personal Independence Payment (PIP) appeal, and DWP and local authority guidance when deciding to refuse the claimant a discretionary housing payment (DHP) application to cover the shortfall caused by the Universal Credit under-35 shared accommodation housing element rate. Don't use this letter before you have exhausted the local authority's dispute resolution process.
Use this template to challenge the DWP's failure to assess your client's capability for work for universal credit (UC) within a reasonable time when your client will have limited capability for work and work-related activity once assessed.
Use this template to challenge the DWP's refusal to stop a universal credit (UC) managed payment to landlord (MPL) which pays your client's rent in full directly from their UC to their landlord each month, but your client is benefit capped so this leaves them without enough UC to meet their basic living expenses and so the MPL cannot be said to be in their interests or the interests of their family (where relevant).
Use this template to challenge DWP's refusal to exercise discretion to make ‘split payments’ of universal credit (UC) in unequal shares where it is in the interests of the claimant, who is a person with a severe disability, to do so.
Use this template if your client has requested a mandatory reconsideration of a decision about universal credit (UC) and they have not received a response at all, or within a reasonable time (including if their mandatory reconsideration request was about housing costs or a habitual residence test decision).
Use this template to challenge DWP's refusal to process, or failure to decide within a reasonable time, your client's mandatory reconsideration made by telephone.
Use this template to request an expedited appeal if your client is in urgent need. It asks the First-tier Tribunal to direct the tribunal clerk to list the appeal hearing and the DWP to respond to your client’s appeal by a specified date.
