This tool helps you draft a note to put in your client's universal credit (UC) journal requesting a mandatory reconsideration of the DWP's decision to impose a sanction on them.
Use this tool to help you to prepare a request for a mandatory reconsideration of the DWP's decision that your client does not have limited capability for work or that they do not have limited capability for work and work-related activity.
Use this tool to help you establish whether your client has grounds for a judicial review challenge. It will direct you to CPAG's judicial review template letters where appropriate.
Use this template to challenge the DWP's refusal to amend your client's claimant commitment to include a work-focused interview only requirement because they have a child aged one year, and to challenge any unlawful sanctions imposed as a result of inappropriate conditionality.
Use this template to challenge the DWP's refusal to depart from the Real Time Information system when your client has provided evidence of their earnings showing that the RTI is wrong.
This template can be used to challenge the DWP's refusal to amend your client's claimant commitment to include no work-related requirements because they have a baby aged under 1 year, and to challenge any unlawful sanctions imposed as a result of inappropriate conditionality.
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 the DWP's termination of old style contributory ESA after 365 days (due to time limiting for claimants with limited capability for work, LCW) if the claimant's capability for work (and therefore whether the claimant has LCWRA, and whether the claimant has entitlement to income related ESA) was not determined first.
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 include the limited capability for work related activity (LCWRA) element in a claimant's new award of universal credit (UC) when the claimant was in receipt of employment and support allowance (ESA) including the support component immediately before they claimed UC.
Use this template in the case of a DWP failure to action an SR1 (formally DS1500) to treat a claimant as having limited capability for work and work-related activity (LCWRA) from start of their universal credit (UC) award (or terminal diagnosis if later) including failure to include the LCWRA element from the outset and informing the claimant they need to wait for a work capability assessment.
Use this template to challenge the DWP's requirement that a claimant accept a claimant commitment for universal credit (UC), when an SR1 (formerly DS1500) has been provided that confirms the claimant's terminal illness.
