Challenging a DWP benefit decision

If you don't agree with a decision made by the DWP on your benefit claim, you may want to try and get it changed. The rules for how you do this changed on 28 October 2013. These pages tell you how to challenge a decision on or after this date.

Challenging a benefit or tax credit decision - asking for a mandatory reconsideration

Asking for a reconsideration of a benefit decision including time limits.

You want to change your DWP benefit decision because your circumstances have changed

What to do if your circumstances change and how your DWP benefit decision may be changed.

You've been sanctioned

Universal Credit - challenging a benefit decision if you've been sanctioned

Common reasons for changing a DWP benefit decision

Personal Independence Payment
Universal Credit
Contributory ESA or contribution-based JSA in a Universal Credit area
Your benefit decision has been changed because of official errors or changes in the law

Revisions and supersessions

Changing a DWP benefit decision by revision
Changing a DWP benefit decision by supersession

Appeals

Appealing against a DWP benefit decision
Late benefit appeals
If you think your DWP benefit decision is wrong and you're too late to appeal
Changing a DWP benefit decision after you've appealed