Use this template to challenge DWP’s unlawful requirement for your client, who has leave to remain under the Migrant Victims of Domestic Abuse Concession (formerly the DDV), to satisfy the habitual residence test (HRT) when processing their claim for universal credit (UC) and the DWP's consequent failure to decide your client's UC claim within a reasonable time.
Use this letter to challenge the DWP's refusal to stop a deduction for rent arrears from your client's universal credit (UC) award when your client has cleared their rent arrears and their rent account is now in credit, including where your client's landlord is requesting ‘rent in advance’.
Use this template to challenge the DWP's refusal of a change of circumstances advance because your client did not apply for it in the assessment period in which they stopped work, when your client did not apply for it in that assessment period as they received a final payment of wages and did not need it then.
Use this template to challenge a failure of the DWP to exempt a refugee, or person with humanitarian or other analogous status, from the habitual residence test for universal credit (UC), and consequent refusal of or delay in deciding entitlement.
Use this template to challenge a failure of the DWP to exempt your client, who is in Great Britain under the Afghan Relocations and Assistance Policy, from the habitual residence test (HRT) for universal credit (UC), and consequent refusal of or delay in deciding entitlement.
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.
