Use this template to challenge the 'closure' of your client's new universal credit (UC) claim for failure to accept their claimant commitment when they were given less than 7 days to accept it and/or have complex needs which mean it was unreasonable to expect them to.
Use this template to challenge DWP's decision to take into account the fostering allowance that your client, who is a foster carer, receives as either earned or unearned income when calculating their universal credit (UC) entitlement.
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 to challenge DWP's failure to exercise discretion not to recover an overpayment of universal credit (UC) when your client was eligible for, but did not claim, pension credit and housing benefit during the period of the overpayment at a higher rate than the UC they received.
