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Welfare Benefits Handbook 2025/26
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01 Dec 2025
Chapter 51: Appealing to the First-tier Tribunal
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Welfare Benefits Handbook 2025/26
Part 8: Getting a benefit decision changed
Chapter 51: Appealing to the First-tier Tribunal
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Chapter 51: Appealing to the First-tier Tribunal
Key facts
1. Before you appeal
Mandatory reconsideration
When you must apply for a mandatory reconsideration
Mandatory reconsideration time limits
Applying for a mandatory reconsideration
The mandatory reconsideration notice
Who can appeal
Decisions you can appeal
Decisions you cannot appeal
2. How to appeal
Where to send your written appeal
Appeal time limits
If you had to apply for a mandatory reconsideration
If you did not have to apply for a mandatory reconsideration
Late appeals
Making sure your appeal is valid
The information you must provide
Representatives
Meeting the costs
3. After you submit your appeal
Who deals with your appeal
The enquiry form
The decision maker's response
Providing additional information
When your appeal can lapse
What the First-tier Tribunal can do
Extending or shortening time limits
Directions
Postponements and adjournments
When your appeal can be struck out
Being barred from taking part in an appeal
Withdrawing an appeal
Test cases and lead cases
Test cases
Lead cases
4. How the tribunal makes its decision
Decisions based on the papers only
Hearings
Ways to participate in a hearing
At the hearing
The judge and members
Procedure at the hearing
What the tribunal considers
Appeals involving revisions and supersessions
Changes of circumstances after the decision under appeal
5. Preparing your appeal
6. The tribunal's decision
Record of proceedings
The statement of reasons
If you win your appeal
If you disagree with the tribunal's decision
Setting aside a decision on procedural grounds
Setting aside a decision by agreement
This chapter covers the rules for appeals to the First-tier Tribunal about benefits, the social fund payments in Chapter
33
(except budgeting loans), decisions about DWP loans for mortgage interest (see
here
) and national insurance credits. It does
not
cover the rules for statutory payments (see Chapter
54
), the health benefits in Chapter
27
or the Scottish benefits (see Chapter
69
).
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CPAG. "Chapter 51: Appealing to the First-tier Tribunal." In
Welfare Benefits Handbook 2025/26.
, 2025. Accessed March 10, 2026.
CPAG,
https://askcpag.org.uk/?id=-265697CITANCHOR.
CPAG. "Chapter 51: Appealing to the First-tier Tribunal." In
Welfare Benefits Handbook 2025/26.
, 2025. Accessed March 10, 2026. https://askcpag.org.uk/?id=-265697CITANCHOR.
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