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• How to claim Housing Benefit

  How to claim Housing Benefit, including if you can backdate your claim. How to claim a Discretionary Housing Payment too

• Ask the council to check if your rented home needs repairs

  If you’ve reported repairs to your landlord and they haven’t done anything, find out if the council can help you get the work done

• How to read your smart gas meter

  Find out how to get a reading from your smart gas meter or your meter's in-home display

• What's the public sector equality duty?

  What the public sector equality duty is and how public authorities must comply with it to make sure no-one is disadvantaged by their policies or decisions

• Help with school costs

  Find out what help you can get to pay for school lunches, uniforms and transport if you’re on a low income

• How to read your gas or electricity meter

  Your supplier needs readings from your gas or electricity meter to work out your bills. Find out how to read different types of gas and electricity meters

• Q1 - moving around and using steps

  Help to fill in Q1: moving around and using steps for your ESA application. Find out what this means and how to correctly complete the question

• Hire purchase and conditional sale

  Information about how hire purchase and conditional sale agreements work, the right to end a hire purchase agreement and what happens if the buyer is unable to pay