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.
Use this template to challenge DWP decisions to require your client who is a refugee to provide an eVisa when no eVisa has yet been issued to them, and/or to satisfy the habitual residence test (HRT) when they are exempt, and/or your client who is a newly recognised refugee has not been offered a new claim advance.
Use this letter to challenge the DWP's refusal to stop deductions from your client's universal credit (UC) for a benefit overpayment during your client's Debt Relief Order (DRO) moratorium when your client listed the overpayment as a DRO qualifying debt.
Use this letter to challenge HMRC’s refusal to exercise discretion to split child benefit payments between separated parents with equal care of two or more children.
Use this template to challenge a DWP delay, where a claimant has a new baby or has becomes responsible for a child/children (including if their 16-18 year old has returned to full time education), has notified the DWP within 1 month (or within 13 months if they had good reason for notifying late) and provided any evidence requested, but no new child element has been included in their universal credit (UC) award within a reasonable time.
Use this template to challenge HMRC's refusal to exercise discretion to reallocate child benefit payments to your client who has shared equal care of their child following relationship breakdown, is a survivor of domestic abuse, is on a low or benefit only income, and the child benefit is currently in payment to the other parent who is the perpetrator of that abuse and is a higher rate tax payer.
Use this template to challenge the DWP's refusal to pay new style ESA pending your client's appeal of a contribution-based ESA work capability assessment, on the grounds your client is treated as having limited capability for work pending their appeal (when they are unaffected by the 365-day time limit for claimants with limited capability for work).
Use this template to challenge the DWP's refusal to reduce the rate of a deduction from your client's universal credit (UC) award for a new claim advance when all the deductions from your client's UC total 25% of their standard allowance.
Use this template to challenge DWP's failure to exercise their discretion not to reduce the rate of deduction from your client's universal credit (UC) award to recover a hardship payment.
Use this template to challenge the DWP's decision to deduct more than 25% of a claimant's universal credit (UC) standard allowance when multiple deductions are taken at the same time.
