Challenging a DWP benefit decision

Challenging a DWP benefit decision - where to start

How to challenge a benefit decision.

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