Use this template to challenge the DWP's failure to exercise discretion not to recover an overpayment of universal credit (UC) housing costs element caused by DWP official error and when your client would have been entitled to housing benefit for the same amount.
Use this template to challenge the failure of the DWP to offer, or DWP's refusal of, an advance payment to a claimant who is a newly recognised refugee (or other analogous status) who has made a new claim for universal credit (UC) and has no other income.
Use this template to challenge DWP's failure to apply the decision in MJ v SSWP [2025] UKUT 035 (AAC) which found it is discriminatory to erode the universal credit (UC) transitional element when a claimant is awarded the LCWRA element causing their carer element to stop.
Use this template to challenge the DWP's failure to decide 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 (LCWRA) once assessed, including that your client has had an inconclusive telephone assessment and been told to 'wait for a face-to-face assessment'.
Use this template to challenge the DWP's failure to assess your client for personal independence payment (PIP) on the basis of their paperwork when your client has provided sufficient evidence for them to do so, and the DWP's failure to offer a home visit when this would constitute a reasonable adjustment due to your client's disability.
Use this letter to challenge the DWP's refusal to include a housing costs element in your client's universal credit (UC) award as your client's accommodation has been misidentified as ‘specified’ supported accommodation as they receive care, support or supervision, but their accommodation is provided by a private landlord and so cannot be.
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claimant whose universal credit (UC) award included a transitional element and a carer element and who has their award superseded to include a limited capability for work-related activity (LCWRA) element, when this has resulted in the erosion of the transitional element by an amount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 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.
Use this template to challenge the DWP's decision to suspend your client's universal credit (UC) award in full when DWP has the power to suspend only in part and only some of your client's entitlement is in doubt (drafted for when one partner in a UC couple's immigration status has been called into question).
Use this template to challenge a local authority's refusal to carry out an any time revision of a decision to end your client's housing benefit award when your client was served with a notice to quit by their landlord but still lives in the property and is liable for mesne profits.
Use this template to challenge DWP's refusal to treat your client as having limited capability for work-related activity (LCWRA) when they are undergoing treatment for cancer because they have earnings (which are contractual sick pay).
