Use this template to challenge DWP's refusal to exercise discretion to make ‘split payments’ of universal credit (UC) in unequal shares where it is in the interests of the claimant, who is a person with a severe disability, to do so.
Use this template to challenge the DWP's failure to assess your client for personal independence payment (PIP) on the basis of their paperwork when your client has provided sufficient evidence for them to do so, and the DWP's failure to offer a home visit when this would constitute a reasonable adjustment due to your client's disability.
Use this template to challenge a local authority decision that your client is not entitled to council tax support because they are 'not in Great Britain’ when your client has settled status under the EU Settlement Scheme.
Use this template to challenge the DWP's failure to exercise discretion not to recover an overpayment of universal credit (UC) housing costs element caused by DWP official error and when your client would have been entitled to housing benefit for the same amount.
Use this template to challenge a local authority's refusal of discretionary housing payment (DHP) because your client's rent is paid in full from their universal credit (UC) by a managed payment to the landlord, but your client is subject to the benefit cap and is left with insufficient UC for their living costs.
Use this template to challenge the DWP's unlawful refusal of old-style ESA for failure to attend a face-to-face work capability assessment when your client should have been assessed on their papers as sufficient evidence was available to the DWP to do so, or by offering a home visit when this would have been a reasonable adjustment due to your client's disability.
Use this template to challenge the DWP's failure to reassess your client's capability for work for an ongoing old-style ESA award either on their papers as sufficient evidence was available to the DWP to do so, or by offering a home visit when this would have been a reasonable adjustment due to your client's disability.
Use this template to challenge the DWP's refusal to pay your client their current award of universal credit (UC) because they are working out your client's entitlement for a previous finite period following an appeal decision.
Use this letter to challenge the DWP’s failure to offer an amount equivalent to the amount your client is expecting as their whole universal credit (UC) award (ie, including elements) as a new claim advance.
Use this letter to challenge the DWP’s failure to include your client's full contractual rent liability when calculating the universal credit (UC) housing costs element and the requirement for your client to prompt the appropriate calculation of their benefit each UC assessment period because your client has a joint tenancy but the joint tenant has left (an 'untidy tenancy').
Use this letter to challenge DWP’s unreasonable delay in deciding your client's request for a supersession of their income support award to include the severe disability premium (SDP).
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.
