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• Check what benefits you can get

  Get a quick idea of the benefits you can claim, including disability benefits and links to benefit calculators

• Check if you can get Housing Benefit

  Check if you can claim Housing Benefit to help pay your rent - and find out if you’re entitled to the maximum amount of Housing Benefit

• Check if you can claim ESA

  Check what Employment and Support Allowance (ESA) is and if you can claim

• If there's flooding in your rented home

  Information on dealing with flooding if you're a tenant, including emergency relocation, paying the rent and temporary homelessness

• Get help with the cost of renting privately

  Check if you can get help to pay your rent or council tax. Check if you can get Universal Credit for housing costs or a council tax reduction.

• Get a hardship payment if you've been sanctioned

  If you've been sanctioned, you might be able to get some emergency money to help you cover household expenses. This is called a hardship payment

• If you've been sanctioned

  Get help if you've been sanctioned while on universal credit. We have advice on how to check your sanction and challenging it, and how to get hardship payment.

• Check you've been given the right sanction

  Find out what type of sanction you should get, how long it should be, where to get help with challenging a sanction and how to get more details

• If your Income Support has stopped

  Find out why your Income Support payments have stopped and how to get them started again

• Reporting a change while you're on ESA

  What changes of circumstance to tell the DWP about while you're getting ESA, how to contact the DWP about the changes