Most people lose a benefit claim on how it was written up, not on whether they qualified. The Companion takes you through yours question by question, works out the points you should be scoring, and drafts the document ready to send.
of PIP appeals heard at a tribunal were decided in the claimant's favour in the latest published quarter, January to March 2026 (HM Courts and Tribunals Service). The decision you were sent is very often not the last word, and how you put the challenge is what moves it. See the figures
The first thing you see when you come back: how many days until your deadline, how many days you have logged, the share of them that were difficult, and the documents already waiting for you.
The Companion is not a template pack. It is the part a good adviser would do with you, available at eleven at night when the letter has just landed.
Benefits, housing, work, debt, consumer and council problems. It asks about your situation in your own words and works to the test that actually decides your case, whether that is a PIP descriptor, a landlord's repairing obligation or the Consumer Rights Act.
Applying the reliability test the assessors are meant to use: whether you can do it safely, to an acceptable standard, as often as needed and in a reasonable time. That is where most awards are won and lost.
A mandatory reconsideration, a tribunal submission, completed form answers or a supporting letter. Written in your words, checked, and yours to download, print and post.
A mandatory reconsideration is one month from the date on the decision letter. Your workspace counts the days down for you, so the one thing that cannot be undone does not get missed.
If your condition varies, a descriptor applies when it applies on more than half the days. Log how each day went in a couple of taps and the calendar builds the record no one can reconstruct from memory months later.
Every call, who you spoke to and what they promised, logged against the date. This is the part that turns out to matter when somebody says a thing was never said.
A benefit challenge runs for months. A mandatory reconsideration takes four to eight weeks and the average wait for a tribunal is around thirty five. Everything you build along the way stays in one place.
Your deadline, the days you logged and every call you made, on one month grid.
Claim, form, assessment, decision, reconsideration, appeal, tribunal, and what to do next.
Saved, dated and ready to download again whenever you need another copy.
Come back in a month and it already knows your case. You never explain it twice.
Three questions to start: where you live, which benefit, and what you need to do. No account and no card.
It asks about your day, not about regulations, and turns your answers into the points and the wording that count. Free, for as long as you need.
Unlock to download your finished document and open your workspace: your deadline, your diary, your contact log and every document your case needs from here to tribunal.
The Claim Companion gives you information to put your own case, not regulated legal advice. For representation at a tribunal we will point you to your local Citizens Advice or a law centre. Prefer to just ask a question? The free advice chat is here.