NI260 - A guide to Revision, Supersession and Appeal (April 2009)
Decisions on other benefits and pensions
- Decisions about a Budgeting Loan, Crisis Loan or Community Care Grant
- Decisions about War Disablement Pension or a War Widow’s Pension
- Decisions about Vaccine Damage Payment
Decisions about a Budgeting Loan, Crisis Loan or Community Care Grant
If you are unhappy about a decision about one of the following benefits or pensions, follow the special procedures for having the decision reviewed which are described below:
- Budgeting Loan, Crisis Loan or Community Care Grant
- War Disablement Pension or a War Widow’s Pension
- Vaccine Damage Payment
If you are unhappy with a decision about your application for a Budgeting Loan, Crisis Loan or Community Care Grant, ask for a review of the decision from the social security office which dealt with your Social Fund application. Full details for reviewing a Social Fund decision are given in Leaflet SB16 A guide to the Social Fund (which you can get from your local Jobcentre Plus or social security office). Applications for review must be made in writing within 28 days of the decision.
Decisions about War Disablement Pension or a War Widow’s Pension
You can appeal to the independent Pensions Appeal Tribunal:
- if it has been decided that you are not entitled to a War Disablement Pension, a War Widow’s Pension or a War Pensions Supplementary Allowance and you think this decision is wrong
- if you have been awarded a War Disablement Pension and you think that the assessment of your disablement is wrong
If you disagree with the decision of the Tribunal you can appeal, on a point of law only, to the Pensions Appeals Commissioners. You will be given details about how to do this with your Tribunal decision.
For more information visit the Veterans UK website.
Decisions about Vaccine Damage Payment
If you disagree with the decision made on your claim for a Vaccine Damage Payment, you can ask for the decision to be reversed or you can appeal. You should write to The Vaccine Damage Unit whose address is given here.
