Use this template to challenge HMRC's failure to decide a claim for child benefit within a reasonable time when that claim is made by a survivor of domestic abuse and the perpetrator of the abuse is currently receiving child benefit for their child(ren) and the child(ren) live(s) with the claimant.
Use this template to challenge the DWP's failure to decide your client's claim for personal independence payment (PIP) within a reasonable time because of a failure to assess your client on the basis of their paperwork when there is sufficient evidence for them to do so when this would constitute a reasonable adjustment due to your client's disability.
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 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 the DWP's failure to decide your client's any time or specified grounds income-related employment and support allowance (irESA) revision request within a reasonable time.
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 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 letter to challenge the DWP's refusal to stop a deduction for rent arrears from your client's universal credit (UC) award when your client has cleared their rent arrears and their rent account is now in credit, including where your client's landlord is requesting ‘rent in advance’.
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 template to challenge a failure of the DWP to exempt a refugee, or person with humanitarian or other analogous status, from the habitual residence test for universal credit (UC), and consequent refusal of or delay in deciding entitlement.
Use this template to challenge a failure of the DWP to exempt your client, who is in Great Britain under the Afghan Relocations and Assistance Policy, from the habitual residence test (HRT) for universal credit (UC), and consequent refusal of or delay in deciding entitlement.
