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UC mandatory reconsideration postal address

alki
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Hi everyone!

Could someone please share the address for the DWP UC MR team with me? I’ve been searching the internet but haven’t had any luck.

Thank you in advance.

Best regards,
Alki

Stainsby
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You could try

FREEPOST DWP
Universal Credit Full Service
(Mandatory Reconsideration)

alki
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Thank you Stainsby!

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or there is the postal address:

UCFS Post
Canterbury BSC
Nutwood House
Chaucer Road
Canterbury
Kent
CT1 1ZZ


from https://data.parliament.uk/DepositedPapers/Files/DEP2023-0791/008._All_about_Universal_Credit_V28.0.pdf

Helen D
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I have just called UC to find this out and they told me the below address - FYI!

Stainsby - 04 April 2024 03:37 PM

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FREEPOST DWP
Universal Credit Full Service
(Mandatory Reconsideration)

past caring
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Well yes, they would wouldn’t they?

The problem with that address is you cannot post to it recorded or special delivery and that, unlike other Freepost addresses, it doesn’t even have a Freepost number - so yo cannot even get over the counter proof of postage in the Post Office. Which of course suits UC - because once you post to that black hole, there’s no evidence you’ve done so.

Hence the suggestion of a’proper’ physical addresses further up the page. People can also use;

Universal Credit
Canterbury Benefit Centre
Mail Handling Site A
Wolverhampton
WV98 2EA

These are still current by the way.