Use this template to request an expedited appeal if your client is in urgent need. It asks the First-tier Tribunal to direct the tribunal clerk to list the appeal hearing and the DWP to respond to your client’s appeal by a specified date.
Use this template if your client's universal credit (UC) transitional element has been eroded because their housing costs element has increased when the increase in the housing costs element has been caused by the client being allowed an additional bedroom for a non-resident carer (that is they meet the 'overnight care condition') and has resulted in the bedroom tax no longer applying or being reduced.
Use this template to challenge a DWP delay, where a claimant has a new baby or has becomes responsible for a child/children (including if their 16-18 year old has returned to full time education), has notified the DWP within 1 month (or within 13 months if they had good reason for notifying late) and provided any evidence requested, but no new child element has been included in their universal credit (UC) award within a reasonable time.
Use this template to challenge HMRC's refusal to exercise discretion to reallocate child benefit payments to your client who has shared equal care of their child following relationship breakdown, is a survivor of domestic abuse, is on a low or benefit only income, and the child benefit is currently in payment to the other parent who is the perpetrator of that abuse and is a higher rate tax payer.
Use this template to challenge DWP's failure to apply the decision in MJ v SSWP [2025] UKUT 035 (AAC) which found it is discriminatory to erode the universal credit (UC) transitional element when a claimant is awarded the LCWRA element causing their carer element to stop.
Use this template to challenge DWP's refusal to treat your client as having limited capability for work-related activity (LCWRA) when they are undergoing treatment for cancer because they have earnings (which are contractual sick pay).
Use this appeal submission template for a claimant whose universal credit (UC) award included a transitional element and a carer element and who has their award superseded to include a limited capability for work-related activity (LCWRA) element, when this has resulted in the erosion of the transitional element by an amount equivalent to all of the LCWRA element.
Use this template to challenge the 'closure' of your client's new universal credit (UC) claim for failure to accept their claimant commitment when they were given less than 7 days to accept it and/or have complex needs which mean it was unreasonable to expect them to.
A basic condition of entitlement to universal credit (UC) is that you must not be 'receiving education'. However, some students don't count as 'receiving education' and even if you are 'receiving education' there are some exceptions that allow you to potentially still qualify for UC. If you are a student, use this tool to check your position.
Use this template to challenge the DWP's refusal of the universal credit (UC) housing costs element because your client is not the named tenant but they are responsible for the rent as the named tenant is not paying.
Use this template to challenge a DWP delay, where a claimant has become a full time carer and has notified the DWP within 1 month (or 13 months if they had good reason for notifying late or in line with an award of carer's allowance), or been awarded carer's allowance, and has provided any evidence requested, but the carer element has not been included in their universal credit (UC) award within a reasonable time.
Use this template to challenge a local authority's refusal to accept, or failure to decide within 14 days, a claim for housing benefit made by a claimant in temporary accommodation which they have been placed in by a different authority, and failure to make a payment on account of a rent allowance.
