Our team can assist clients who are challenging benefit decisions by assessing the appeal documents, collating supporting evidence, legal research and preparing a case to be heard at the Tribunal Service (First-Tier Tribunal). Our team have also successfully challenged Tribunal decisions by way of a set aside or permission to appeal to the Upper Tribunal. This may also involve preparing a case to be heard at the Upper Tribunal.

 

The majority of our Welfare Benefits appeal work consists of disability benefits such as Personal Independence Payment and Employment & Support Allowance. Unfortunately, when these clients were assessed by DWP to determine their entitlement to these disability benefits the effects of their health problems were underestimated and they failed to obtain sufficient points.

 

The Welfare Benefits Team help those with either or both mental or physical health problems.

 

If you have received a decision alleging that you have been overpaid benefits or tax credits you may be able to challenge it if the overpayment occurred as a result of an error made by DWP, the local authority or HMRC or in certain circumstances where you have disclosed a change in your circumstances.

 

Our Welfare Benefits Team have successfully challenged overpayment decisions and as a result the overpayments were no longer recoverable.

 

Our Welfare Benefit Team also assist with cases dealing with the right to reside and the habitual residence test. It is a complex area of Welfare Benefit law that requires legal knowledge and expertise.