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Welfare Benefits Handbook 2025/26
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Chapter 50: Revisions and supersessions
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Welfare Benefits Handbook 2025/26
Part 8: Getting a benefit decision changed
Chapter 50: Revisions and supersessions
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Chapter 50: Revisions and supersessions
Key facts
1. Getting a decision changed
Revisions and supersessions
The risks of applying for a revision or supersession
2. Revisions
When a decision can be revised
'Any grounds' revisions
Time limit for applying for an 'any grounds' revision
Time limit for decision makers
'Any time' revisions
Official error
Sanction decisions
Awards of a qualifying benefit
A decision that has been appealed
Mistake about or ignorance of facts
Other grounds for an 'any time' revision
How to apply for a revision
Providing further evidence and information
When a revision takes effect
Challenging a revision
3. Supersessions
When a decision can be superseded
New medical reports from a healthcare professional and capability for work and disability conditions
Change of circumstances
Mistake about or ignorance of facts
Decisions that are legally wrong
Awards of qualifying benefits
Other grounds for supersession
How to apply for a supersession
When a supersession takes effect
The general rule
New medical reports and disability/limited capability for work decisions
Changes in your circumstances
Mistake about or ignorance of facts
Awards of qualifying benefits
Test cases
Other grounds for supersession
Challenging a supersession
If a decision maker refuses to consider a supersession
4. Revisions and supersessions after a qualifying benefit award
You or a family member are awarded a qualifying benefit or an increased rate
Your non-dependant is awarded a qualifying benefit or an increased rate
You only qualify when the qualifying benefit is awarded
5. The ‘anti-test case rule'
What happens while a test case is pending
This chapter covers the rules for benefits, the social fund payments in Chapter
33
(except budgeting loans) and decisions about DWP loans for mortgage interest (see
here
). It does not cover the rules for Scottish benefits (see Chapter
69
), statutory payments (see Chapter
54
) or the health benefits in Chapter
27
.
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CPAG. "Chapter 50: Revisions and supersessions." In
Welfare Benefits Handbook 2025/26.
, 2025. Accessed March 6, 2026.
CPAG,
https://askcpag.org.uk/?id=-265651CITANCHOR.
CPAG. "Chapter 50: Revisions and supersessions." In
Welfare Benefits Handbook 2025/26.
, 2025. Accessed March 6, 2026. https://askcpag.org.uk/?id=-265651CITANCHOR.
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Welfare Benefits Handbook 2025/26
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