Use this template to challenge HMRC’s refusal to include the disabled worker element in your client's working tax credit (WTC) award when their entitlement to it is due to a previous employment and support allowance (ESA) award rather than due to an award of personal independence payment (PIP).
Use this template to challenge the DWP's failure to apply the 9-month benefit cap grace period to your client's universal credit (UC) when your client has stopped working, but was in work for at least the minimum wage for the previous 12 months.
Use this letter to challenge HMRC's failure to apply the St Prix period correctly when deciding your client's claim for child benefit (ie, failing to treat your client as an EEA worker for a reasonable period following the birth of your client's child when your client has EU pre-settled status and had a right to reside as a worker before stopping work due to late-stage pregnancy or child birth).
Use this template to challenge DWP's failure to provide adequate reasons for a universal credit (UC) work capability assessment (WCA) determination, including where generic or standard reasons have been provided.
Use this template to challenge DWP's failure to provide adequate reasons for a new-style employment and support allowance (ESA) work capability assessment (WCA) determination, including where generic or standard reasons have been provided.
Use this template to challenge the DWP's refusal to provide a universal credit (UC) mandatory reconsideration notice because the DWP says: "there is no right to an MR because the challenge relates to a policy issue".
Use this template to challenge the DWP's refusal to stop a universal credit (UC) managed payment to landlord (MPL) which pays your client's rent in full directly from their UC to their landlord each month, but your client is benefit capped so this leaves them without enough UC to meet their basic living expenses and so the MPL cannot be said to be in their interests or the interests of their family (where relevant).
Use this template to challenge HMRC's ongoing failure to exercise discretion not to recover an overpayment of tax credits from your client's current universal credit (UC) award when that overpayment was a result of official error by HMRC and your client is experiencing financial hardship.
Use this template to challenge DWP's failure to exercise their discretion not to reduce the rate of deduction from your client's universal credit (UC) award to recover a hardship payment.
Use this template to challenge the DWP’s 'closure' of your client's universal credit (UC) claim because your client has an appeal pending/ongoing in respect of a previous claim / award even though there has been a change of circumstances since their previous claim / award.
Use this template to challenge DWP’s unlawful requirement for your client, who has leave to remain under the Migrant Victims of Domestic Abuse Concession (formerly the DDV), to satisfy the habitual residence test (HRT) when processing their claim for universal credit (UC) and the DWP's consequent failure to decide your client's UC claim within a reasonable time.
Use this template to challenge the DWP’s refusal to apply the universal credit (UC) work allowance to your client's earnings (including sick pay) when your client is ‘treated as having limited capability for work-related activity (LCWRA)’ for UC due to having treatment for cancer.
