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. 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.
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.
Universal credit claim 'closure following failure to attend initial evidence meeting (FTT12)
Use this template to create a note which can be posted in the claimant’s online UC journal.
Template journal messages for a refugee making a new claim for universal credit
If you are an adviser, check our judicial review pre-action protocol template letters:
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 pre-action protocol template letters:
Universal credit housing costs where joint tenant has moved out: mandatory reconsideration
If you are an adviser, check our judicial review pre-action protocol template letters:
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:
Request a breakdown of the calculation of a universal credit transitional element
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
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
Universal credit work capability assessment: mandatory reconsideration
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
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 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: Migration to universal credit
If you are an adviser, check our judicial review pre-action protocol template letters:
Judicial review pre-action template letters: Universal credit
