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 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.
Use this template to challenge the DWP's refusal to amend a claimant commitment to reduce work search and availability requirements to 30 hours per week when your client is responsible for a child aged 3-12 years, and to challenge any unlawful sanctions imposed as a result of inappropriate conditionality.
Use this template to challenge a local authority's refusal of crisis and resilience housing payment (formerly 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.
