Use this template to challenge DWP's failure to provide adequate reasons for a universal credit (UC) work capability assessment (WCA) determination, including where generic or standard reasons have been provided.
Use this template to challenge DWP's decision to 'close' your client's universal credit (UC) award, ie to revise the decision awarding your client UC and to create an overpayment, because your client failed to attend an interview at the Jobcentre, and the DWP's delay in responding to your client's mandatory reconsideration request challenging this decision.
Use this template to challenge the DWP's decision to 'close', ie, refuse your client's claim for pension credit because they do not satisfy the habitual residence test (HRT) when your client is a refugee, or has other status which exempts them from the HRT.
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 the DWP's refusal to stop deductions from your client's universal credit (UC) for rent arrears during your client's debt relief order (DRO) moratorium when your client listed their arrears as a DRO qualifying debt and does not have, or has already varied the terms of, a suspended possession order including repayment terms.
Use this template to challenge DWP’s refusal to stop deductions from your client's universal credit (UC) for gas or electricity arrears and ongoing usage when your client has cleared all their gas or electricity arrears and their account is in credit.
Use this template to challenge DWP's refusal to include the limited capability for work-related activity (LCWRA) element from the start of your client's universal credit (UC) award when your client was previously assessed as having LCWRA for employment and support allowance (ESA) and has been entitled to national insurance (NI) credits since their ESA entitlement ended (ie, ESA did not end because your client was found not to have LCWRA).
Use this template to challenge the DWP's refusal to stop a universal credit (UC) managed payment to landlord when the claimant has provided evidence confirming that they are not the claimant's current landlord.
Use this template to challenge the DWP's refusal to include the limited capability for work-related activity (LCWRA) element in a universal credit (UC) award because the claimant, who was previously on employment and support allowance (ESA) including the support component, claimed UC after their final managed migration deadline, when the claimant was entitled to ongoing national insurance (NI) credits on the date they claimed UC and is therefore entitled to the LCWRA element.
Use this template to challenge DWP's delay or refusal to supersede your client's income-related employment and support allowance (irESA) award from the date they have been awarded personal independence payment (PIP) from to include a severe disability premium (SDP) and advises your client they 'should claim UC instead'.
Use this template to challenge the DWP's decision to end your client's universal credit (UC) award for failure to accept their claimant commitment when they were only invited to a meeting to review their commitments, have previously accepted a claimant commitment, and were not asked the reason for their non-attendance.
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.
