Can you get benefits? As 188,000 win back DWP payments after being REJECTED for cash support

THOUSANDS of radical could beryllium missing retired connected captious currency enactment aft being wrongly rejected for benefits.

More than 188,000 benefits claimants successfully appealed a DWP determination betwixt April 2022 and April 2023, The Sun tin reveal.

If you use for benefits, tax credits oregon kid attraction and are rejected past you tin inquire the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) to look astatine the determination again.

This process is called mandatory reconsideration.

If successful, it could mean the claimant receives thousands of pounds a twelvemonth successful benefits which they would not person been entitled to had they not appealed.

The staggering figures travel from a Freedom of Information request we submitted.

Around 595,000 mandatory reconsideration requests were received by the DWP during this play - which means 32% were successful.

To beryllium eligible for mandatory reconsideration you indispensable person applied for benefits including Attendance Allowance, Universal Credit oregon the Winter Fuel Payment.

You tin inquire for the review if you deliberation the office that dealt with your assertion made an mistake oregon missed important evidence, you disagree with the crushed for the determination oregon you privation your lawsuit to beryllium looked astatine again.

The process is escaped and usually takes betwixt 2 weeks and respective months.

Personal Independence Payment was the astir appealed payment determination successful the 2022/23 fiscal year.

Around 276,790 applicants asked for their lawsuit to beryllium reviewed and astir 23% were successful.

Meanwhile, 269,410 radical applied for a mandatory reconsideration aft their Universal Credit exertion was unsuccessful.

Around 104,990 - oregon 39% - of these applications were approved aft their lawsuit was reviewed.

But astir fractional of Universal Credit appeals received betwixt February and April 2023 were approved.

David Southgate, argumentation manager astatine disability equality charity Scope, said these figures amusement acold excessively galore disabled radical are getting the incorrect determination successful their payment assessments.

He adds: “Every week, we perceive from disabled radical who archer america that incorrect decisions are being made by assessors who don’t recognize their conditions oregon circumstances.

“These incorrect decisions travel astatine a hefty outgo to the authorities too, with astir fractional of Universal Credit decisions being overturned.

“The authorities needs to enactment with disabled radical to hole our breached benefits system. That indispensable see bringing successful adept assessors who recognize the existent interaction of someone’s condition.”

Employment and Support Allowance appeals were besides precise successful.

Only 3,380 radical asked for their lawsuit to beryllium reviewed successful the 2022/23 fiscal year.

But 39% of these appeals were approved - adjacent to astir 3,380 people.

Shockingly, fractional of each mandatory reconsiderations were granted betwixt February and April 2023.

A DWP spokesperson told The Sun: “We enactment millions of radical each twelvemonth and our precedence is they person the assistance they are entitled to.

“Mandatory Reconsideration is simply a cardinal constituent of the department’s decision-making process, and offers an accidental to situation decisions and supply immoderate further accusation which whitethorn beryllium applicable to a claim.”

This is not the archetypal clip The Sun has shed airy connected the fig of incorrect authorities payment decisions.

Last twelvemonth we revealed that hundreds of thousands of radical person won PIP payment payments aft the DWP rejected them.

We person besides exposed the fig of payment claims that were wrongly rejected owed to flaws successful the system.

Meanwhile, we person highlighted however hundreds of thousands of radical are £9,000 amended off aft their rulings connected PIP were overturned.

How to entreaty a payment decision

If you are unhappy with a payment determination you whitethorn beryllium capable to entreaty it.

If you inquire for a mandatory reconsideration past idiosyncratic volition look astatine your full benefit assertion again.

You volition get a missive called a ‘mandatory reconsideration notice’ to archer you whether they person changed the decision.

The missive volition explicate the crushed for that determination and the grounds it was based on.

Bear successful caput that your payment whitethorn stop, enactment the same, summation oregon alteration arsenic a effect of the review.

You tin inquire for a mandatory reconsideration for benefits including: 

• Attendance Allowance
• Pension Credit
• Bereavement Allowance
• Carer’s Allowance
• Personal Independence Payment (PIP)
• Sure Start Maternity Grant
• Universal Credit (including beforehand payments)
• Winter Fuel Payment
• Carer’s Credit
• Child Maintenance (sometimes known arsenic ‘child support’)
• Compensation Recovery Scheme (including NHS betterment claims)
• Diffuse Mesothelioma Payment Scheme
• Industrial Injuries Disablement Benefit
• Jobseeker’s Allowance (JSA)
• Maternity Allowance
• Disability Living Allowance (DLA)
• Employment and Support Allowance (ESA)
• Funeral Expenses Payment
• Income Support
• National Insurance credits

Some decisions cannot beryllium reconsidered.

Your archetypal determination missive should fto you cognize if you tin appeal.

You usually request to inquire for a mandatory reconsideration wrong 1 period of the day of the decision.

But you whitethorn beryllium capable to inquire for a reappraisal aft 1 period has passed if you person a bully reason, for illustration if a loved 1 has passed distant oregon you person been successful hospital.

Call the telephone fig connected your determination missive first.

You tin interaction the benefits bureau by phone, missive oregon by filling successful and returning a signifier asking for a mandatory reconsideration.

If the determination is astir Universal Credit past you tin get successful interaction with the DWP done your journal. 

When you inquire for a mandatory reconsideration you volition request to supply the pursuing information:

• The day of the archetypal payment decision
• Your sanction and address
• Your day of birth
• Your National Insurance number
• An mentation of what portion of the determination is incorrect and why 
• Provide grounds to enactment your reasons specified arsenic caller aesculapian evidence, slope statements oregon payslips.

You should constitute your afloat name, day of commencement and National Insurance fig astatine the apical of each spot of grounds and nonstop it to the payment bureau wherever you applied for your benefit.

If you deliberation the mandatory reconsideration is incorrect past you tin entreaty to the Social Security and Child Support Tribunal.

A justice volition see some sides of the statement earlier making a decision.

Typically you request to entreaty wrong 1 period of the day of your mandatory reconsideration notice.

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