Our tools and templates are adaptable. For example, you can use:
- the arguments in our mandatory reconsideration tools and templates to help you draft an appeal submission; and
- the arguments in our template appeal submissions to help you draft a mandatory reconsideration request.
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. The legislation relevant to your appeal is the legislation in force on the date of the decision you are appealing against. You can look up the legislation online and see the changes to it over time at legislation.gov.uk.
Account information
    
            Getting information from an online universal credit account
      
  
  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.
Claims and claim 'closure'
    
            Claim 'closed' after failure to attend initial evidence meeting
      
  
  Mandatory reconsideration request tool (for subscribers)
Use this tool to write a mandatory reconsideration request:
Appeal submission template
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.
Universal credit claim 'closure' following failure to attend initial evidence meeting (FTT12)
    
            Judicial review pre-action protocol template letters
      
  
  If you are an adviser, check our judicial review pre-action protocol template letters:
Domestic abuse and UC
    
            Disregarding the value of a home
      
  
  Diagnostic tool
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?
    
             Judicial review pre-action protocol template letters
      
  
  If you are an adviser, see our judicial review pre-action protocol template letters:
Elements: housing costs element
    
            Joint tenant moved out ('untidy tenancy')
      
  
  Mandatory reconsideration request (for subscribers)
Universal credit housing costs where joint tenant has moved out: mandatory reconsideration
    
            Late reported or misreported housing costs 
      
  
  Mandatory reconsideration request (for subscribers)
    
            Judicial review pre-action protocol template letters
      
  
  If you are an adviser, check our judicial review pre-action protocol template letters:
Elements: Other elements
    
            Limited capability for work and/or limited capability for work-related activity element
      
  
  Diagnostic and mandatory reconsideration request tools (for subscribers)
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:
    
            Transitional element and transitional SDP element
      
  
  Tool
Request a breakdown of the calculation of a universal credit transitional element
Appeal submission templates
Erosion of UC transitional element when a claimant with a carer element is awarded a LCWRA element (MJ lookalike case) (FTT22)
UC transitional element erodes after claimant’s entitlement increases due to meeting overnight care condition (FTT17)
    
            Judicial review pre-action protocol template letters 
      
  
  If you are an adviser, check our judicial review pre-action protocol template letters:
Judicial review pre-action template letters: Universal credit - elements: other elements
Students and 16 or 17-year-olds
    
            Universal credit for students
      
  
  Diagnostic tool (for subscribers)
    
            Student in non-advanced education
      
  
  
    
            Judicial review pre-action protocol template letters
      
  
  If you are an adviser, see our judicial review pre-action protocol template letters:
Judicial review pre-action template letters: Universal credit - Students and 16 and 17-year olds
Work capability assessment
    
            Challenging decision on limited capability for work and/or limited capability for work-related activity
      
  
  Mandatory reconsideration request (for subscribers)
Universal credit work capability assessment: mandatory reconsideration
    
            Judicial review pre-action protocol template letters
      
  
  If you are an adviser, see our judicial review pre-action protocol template letters:
Judicial review pre-action template letters: Universal credit - work capability assessments
Work-related requirements and sanctions
    
            Check your work-related requirements
      
  
  Diagnostic tool (for subscribers)
    
            Challenge a sanction decision
      
  
  Mandatory reconsideration request tool (for subscribers)
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:
    
            Work-related requirements when moving from ESA to UC
      
  
  Diagnostic and mandatory reconsideration request tool (for subscribers)
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:
    
             Judicial review pre-action protocol template letters
      
  
  If you are an adviser, see our judicial review pre-action protocol template letters:
Other templates: judicial review pre-action protocol template letters
    
            Migration to universal credit
      
  
  If you are an adviser, check our judicial review pre-action protocol template letters:
Judicial review pre-action template letters: Migration to universal credit
    
            Universal credit
      
  
  If you are an adviser, check our judicial review pre-action protocol template letters:
Judicial review pre-action template letters: Universal credit