Our tools and templates are adaptable. For example, you can use:
Note: our appeal submission templates are correct on the date they were last reviewed, so please check them carefully and update as necessary before using them.
Use our tool to generate step-by-step instructions for your client explaining how to find and download information from their online universal credit account
Use this tool to write a mandatory reconsideration request:
Use our appeal submission template when appealing against a decision to refuse to award universal credit (the DWP refer to this as “closing” the claim) because the DWP say your client failed to attend an initial evidence meeting.
Use our template journal messages for a refugee making a new universal credit claim
If you are an adviser, check our judicial review (JR) pre-action protocol template letters:
For copies of the JR template letters, advice about whether JR is the appropriate route, and for help with adapting the templates, contact our Judicial Review Project ([email protected]).
Use this tool to check whether the value of a property you own and have had to leave as a result of domestic abuse can be ignored when working out your universal credit entitlement:
Universal credit for survivors of domestic abuse: can the value of your property be disregarded?
If you are an adviser, see our judicial review (JR) pre-action protocol template letters:
For copies of the JR template letters, advice about whether JR is the appropriate route, and for help with adapting the templates, contact our Judicial Review Project ([email protected]).
Use this tool to write a mandatory reconsideration request:
Check our appeal submission templates. (Note: these templates are not regularly updated, so please check them carefully and update and adapt them as necessary before using):
Check our judicial review (JR) pre-action protocol template letters for advisers:
Universal credit - Elements: housing costs element
For copies of the JR template letters, advice about whether JR is the appropriate route, and for help with adapting the templates, contact our Judicial Review Project ([email protected]).
Use our tool to check the date from which a limited capability for work-related activity element should be included in your universal credit award:
Use our tool to check your work-related requirements and whether you should get the limited capability for work element or the limited capability for work-related activity element when you move from ESA to UC and to draft a note to request a mandatory reconsideration:
Use our tool to draft a note to request a breakdown of how a transitional element has been calculated if you have been transferred to universal credit under the managed migration process and you need further information to know whether you have grounds to challenge the DWP's decision on the amount awarded:
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If you are an adviser, check our judicial review (JR) pre-action protocol template letters:
For copies of the JR template letters, advice about whether JR is the appropriate route, and for help with adapting the templates, contact our Judicial Review Project ([email protected]).
Check our appeal submission templates. (Note: these templates are not regularly updated, so please check them carefully and update and adapt them as necessary before using):
Check our appeal submission templates. (Note: these templates are not regularly updated, so please check them carefully and update and adapt them as necessary before using):
If you are an adviser, see our judicial review (JR) pre-action protocol template letters:
Judicial review pre-action template letters: Universal credit - Students and 16 and 17-year olds
For copies of the JR template letters, advice about whether JR is the appropriate route, and for help with adapting the templates, contact our Judicial Review Project ([email protected]).
If you are an adviser, see our judicial review (JR) pre-action protocol template letters:
Judicial review pre-action template letters: Universal credit - work capability assessments
For copies of the JR template letters, advice about whether JR is the appropriate route, and for help with adapting the templates, contact our Judicial Review Project ([email protected]).
Use this tool to work out which work-related requirements, if any, should apply to you, and find out the legal basis of those requirements:
Use this tool to draft a note to put in your universal credit journal requesting a mandatory reconsideration of the DWP's decision to impose a sanction on you
Use this tool to work out what your universal credit work-related requirements should be, and whether you should get the limited capability for work element or the limited capability for work-related activity element, when you move from ESA to UC:
If you are an adviser, see our judicial review (JR) pre-action protocol template letters:
For copies of the JR template letters, advice about whether JR is the appropriate route, and for help with adapting the templates, contact our Judicial Review Project ([email protected]).
If you are an adviser, check our judicial review (JR) pre-action protocol template letters:
For copies of the JR template letters, advice about whether JR is the appropriate route, and for help with adapting the templates, contact our Judicial Review Project ([email protected]).
If you are an adviser, check our judicial review (JR) pre-action protocol template letters:
For copies of the JR template letters, advice about whether JR is the appropriate route, and for help with adapting the templates, contact our Judicial Review Project ([email protected]).
