A basic condition of entitlement to universal credit (UC) is that you must not be 'receiving education'. However, some students don't count as 'receiving education' and even if you are 'receiving education' there are some exceptions that allow you to potentially still qualify for UC. If you are a student, use this tool to check your position.
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 decision to end your client's UC entitlement due to your client's failure to accept a universal credit (UC) claimant commitment when your client has complex needs and was called to 'meeting' rather than asked to accept an actual commitment.
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 template if your client is an EU national with pre-settled status to whom SSWP v AT applies, if the DWP argues that SSWP v AT does not apply because your client does not come within article 10 of the Withdrawal Agreement (due to not having an EU law right of residence on 31 December 2020).
Use this template to challenge the 'closure' of your client's new universal credit (UC) claim for failure to accept their claimant commitment when they were given less than 7 days to accept it and/or have complex needs which mean it was unreasonable to expect them to.
Use this template to challenge DWP's decision to take into account the fostering allowance that your client, who is a foster carer, receives as either earned or unearned income when calculating their universal credit (UC) entitlement.
Use this template to challenge DWP's failure to exercise discretion not to recover an overpayment of universal credit (UC) when your client was eligible for, but did not claim, pension credit and housing benefit during the period of the overpayment at a higher rate than the UC they received.
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 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 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.
