Use this template to challenge HMRC's refusal to apply notional entitlement offsetting to reduce a tax credit overpayment because it has been applied before to an earlier overpayment.
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 of a new claim universal credit (UC) advance when your client is a survivor of domestic abuse who previously received UC as a couple with the perpetrator of the abuse, is treated as having made a new claim as a single claimant, and DWP has been informed that your client's ex-partner took the final couple payment of UC leaving your client with no money until the end of their first UC assessment period as a single claimant.
Use this template to challenge DWP's refusal to make, or delay in making a supersession decision, or failure to notify your client of a supersession decision.
Use this template to challenge the DWP's delay in implementing a First-tier Tribunal decision that your client has limited capability for work-related activity (LCWRA) from a specified date and the DWP are out of time to appeal.
Use this template to challenge DWP's refusal to send your client a PIP2 form and to decide your client's personal independence payment (PIP) claim until your client, who is within the duration of their existing leave to remain (LTR), has applied to extend their LTR and it is too early for them to apply to extend it.
Use this letter to challenge DWP’s failure to resume your client's personal independence payment (PIP) payments when your client has been discharged from hospital or a psychiatric unit and DWP thinks their current accommodation is a hospital (or similar) setting when it is not.
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 refusal to cancel your client's universal credit (UC) migration notice when your client will be within 6 months of state pension age within 3 months and 1 day of their migration notice, contrary to DWP guidance.
Use this template to challenge DWP's refusal to cancel your client's universal credit (UC) migration notice when your client has a nil award of tax credits, contrary to DWP guidance.
Use this template to challenge the DWP's decision to 'close', ie, refuse your client's claim for universal credit (UC) because they do not satisfy the habitual residence test (HRT) when your client is a refugee and so exempt from the HRT.
Use this template to challenge DWP's refusal to cancel your client's universal credit (UC) migration notice when your client has a 19-year-old child who is in full-time non-advanced education, contrary to DWP guidance.