Tribunal evidence

coopernffc

I've received mandatory R. I've filed in my appeal, however do I need to send a repeat of all the evidence I had previously sent to the mandatory R or will that be available to them if I reference it? 

bernadetta

Hello, If you mean that you have received  a Mandatory Reconsideration Notice (response to your MR), and you are appealing (online or on paper), then everything that you have already sent/ submitted at the stage of claiming, and later when completing the MR, should be included in the appeal papers, on top of the assessment report and the decision maker's reasoning (a response to your appeal).

When you receive the bundle I recommend reading it carefully,  because the DWP may miss some documents, and I had to contact the Tribunal services in the past, and ask them to instruct the DWP to issue missing docs. Although it happens rather rarely, nevertheless, read the bundle and make sure all is there.

 I would not send the evidence again, because the DWP has a legal duty to provide what was submitted, therefore, will need to post evidence from all of the stages of the appealing process and docs will be included twice, if you resend them when lodging an appeal. 

coopernffc

Thank you !