Use this template to challenge DWP's refusal to exercise discretion to make ‘split payments’ of universal credit (UC) in unequal shares where it is in the interests of the claimant and of a person with a severe disability to do so.
Use this template to challenge a local authority decision that your client is not entitled to council tax support because they are 'not in Great Britain’ when your client has settled status under the EU Settlement Scheme.
Use this template appeal submission for a client who has transferred from child tax credit (CTC) to universal credit (UC) under the managed migration process, if, when calculating the client’s entitlement to the UC transitional element, the DWP wrongly included a child element in the ‘indicative UC amount’ for a 19-year-old who had reached 1 September after their 19th birthday and for whom your client was getting CTC.
Use this template to challenge the DWP's unlawful refusal of old-style ESA for failure to attend a face-to-face work capability assessment when your client should have been assessed on their papers as sufficient evidence was available to the DWP to do so, or by offering a home visit when this would have been a reasonable adjustment due to your client's disability.
Use this template to challenge the DWP's failure to reassess your client's capability for work for an ongoing old-style ESA award either on their papers as sufficient evidence was available to the DWP to do so, or by offering a home visit when this would have been a reasonable adjustment due to your client's disability.
Use this template to challenge the DWP's refusal to pay your client their current award of universal credit (UC) because they are working out your client's entitlement for a previous finite period following an appeal decision.
Use this letter to challenge the DWP’s failure to offer an amount equivalent to the amount your client is expecting as their whole universal credit (UC) award (ie, including elements) as a new claim advance.
Use this letter to challenge the DWP’s failure to include your client's full contractual rent liability when calculating the universal credit (UC) housing costs element and the requirement for your client to prompt the appropriate calculation of their benefit each UC assessment period because your client has a joint tenancy but the joint tenant has left (an 'untidy tenancy').
Use this template to challenge the DWP's failure to decide your client's claim for personal independence payment (PIP) within a reasonable time because of a failure to assess your client on the basis of their paperwork when there is sufficient evidence for them to do so, or because of a failure to offer your client a home visit when this would constitute a reasonable adjustment due to your client's disability.
Use this template to challenge HMRC’s refusal to include the disabled worker element in your client's working tax credit (WTC) award when their entitlement to it is due to a previous employment and support allowance (ESA) award rather than due to an award of personal independence payment (PIP).
Use this template to challenge the DWP's failure to apply the 9-month benefit cap grace period to your client's universal credit (UC) when your client has stopped working, but was in work for at least the minimum wage for the previous 12 months.
Use this letter to challenge HMRC's failure to apply the St Prix period correctly when deciding your client's claim for child benefit (ie, failing to treat your client as an EEA worker for a reasonable period following the birth of your client's child when your client has EU pre-settled status and had a right to reside as a worker before stopping work due to late-stage pregnancy or child birth).