Use this template to challenge DWP’s 'closure' of your client's claim for universal credit (UC) because your client has an appeal pending/ongoing in respect of a previous decision which refused or ended their UC entitlement, even though your client has had a change of circumstances since that previous decision.
Use this template to challenge DWP’s unlawful requirement for your client, who has leave to remain under the Migrant Victims of Domestic Abuse Concession (formerly the DDV), to satisfy the habitual residence test (HRT) when processing their claim for universal credit (UC) and the DWP's consequent failure to decide your client's UC claim within a reasonable time.
Use this template to challenge the DWP’s refusal to apply the universal credit (UC) work allowance to your client's earnings (including sick pay) when your client is ‘treated as having limited capability for work-related activity (LCWRA)’ for UC due to having treatment for cancer.
Use this template to challenge the DWP's refusal to treat your client as having limited capability for work-related activity (LCWRA) when your client is undergoing treatment for cancer, and the consequent DWP failure to apply the work allowance to your client's earnings (including sick pay).
Use this template to challenge DWP's refusal to accept your client's claim for new-style employment and support allowance (ESA) because your client has insufficient national insurance contributions ('gatekeeping'), when your client has claimed ESA to trigger an assessment of their capability for work and will be entitled to national insurance credits for limited capability for work once assessed.
Use this template to challenge DWP’s incorrect treatment of an overpayment of wages as either earned or unearned income rather than capital when calculating your client's universal credit (UC) entitlement.
Use this template to challenge DWP's refusal to include 100% of your client's contractual liability when calculating their universal credit (UC) housing costs element because your client has a joint tenancy, but the joint tenant has moved out (an 'untidy tenancy') and your client must pay the full rent in order to stay in the property.
Use this template to challenge the DWP's decision to supersede your client's universal credit (UC) award, to remove the child element when your client's child turned 16, without asking first whether that child remains in full-time, non-advanced education or approved training and is therefore a qualifying young person for UC purposes.
Use this template to challenge the DWP's refusal to refer your pension-age client who is part of a mixed-age universal credit (UC) couple for a work capability assessment because they not working age.
Use this template to challenge the DWP's decision to recover as a lump sum, a tax credit overpayment from a back payment of universal credit (UC) that was owed to your client for a period when the limited capability for work and work-related activity (LCWRA) element should have been included in their UC award, and where your client had an instalment arrangement with HMRC that they were complying with.
Use this template to challenge the DWP's refusal of a change of circumstances advance because your client did not apply for it in the assessment period in which they stopped work, when your client did not apply for it in that assessment period as they received a final payment of wages and did not need it then.
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.
