Use this letter to challenge HMRC's failure to implement a First-tier Tribunal (FTT) decision that your client was entitled to tax credits for a past period when the time limit for HMRC to appeal has expired.
Use this template to challenge the DWP's refusal to either reinstate DWP legacy benefits or compensate your client for the loss of the transitional element as they had not yet received a universal credit (UC) migration notice when a third party fraudulently claimed UC in their name.
Use this template to challenge the DWP's refusal to accept a claim for personal independence payment (PIP) ('gatekeeping') because the claimant does not have a national insurance number, whether or not applied for one before they applied for PIP.
Use this letter to challenge the DWP's decision to suspend your client's universal credit (UC) payments when your client had a non-EEA leave to remain with recourse to public funds and applied to the EU settlement scheme (EUSS) before their existing leave expired but has not yet received a decision.
Use this template to challenge the DWP's decision to 'close your client's claim', ie, to revise the decision on their initial claim to refuse entitlement from the start of their award and to create an overpayment, due to your client's failure to provide ID evidence for 'reverification' when your client was awarded universal credit (UC) during Covid easements and your client is no longer in receipt of UC.
Use this template to challenge the DWP's decision to 'close' your client's 'claim', ie, to revise the decision on their initial claim to refuse entitlement from the start of their award creating an overpayment, due to your client's failure to provide a selfie as ID evidence for 'reverification' when your client was awarded universal credit (UC) during Covid easements. Your client has requested a mandatory reconsideration of the DWP's decision which has not been decided within reasonable time.
Use this template to challenge the DWP's decision that your client aged 19+ is receiving education and therefore not entitled to universal credit (UC), when your client is in non-advanced education and severely disabled, such that if their capability for work is assessed, they will have limited capability for work and work-related activity, so their non-advanced education will not be incompatible with their work-related requirements.
Use this template to challenge the DWP's refusal to administer a universal credit (UC) award by telephone/paper when your client has a disability and cannot manage their online account.
Use this template to challenge HMRC's refusal to apply notional entitlement offsetting to reduce a tax credit overpayment because it has been applied before to an earlier overpayment.
Use this template to challenge DWP's refusal to send your client a PIP2 form and to decide your client's personal independence payment (PIP) claim until your client, who is within the duration of their existing leave to remain (LTR), has applied to extend their LTR and it is too early for them to apply to extend it.
Use this template to challenge DWP's delay in deciding your client's mandatory reconsideration request of a decision that they are not entitled to the universal credit (UC) housing costs element because their fixed-term assured shorthold tenancy agreement has expired, when your client has lawfully remained in the property at the end of the fixed term on statutory periodic basis so does not have and does not need a new written agreement or fixed term.
Use this template to challenge DWP's decision to award personal independence payment (PIP) only to the expiry date of your client's biometric residency permit (BRP) when your client's leave to remain (LTR) extends beyond the end date their BRP, and in any event the expiry date of your client's LTR should be irrelevant to deciding the length of a PIP award.
