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• Check if a change affects your Child Benefit

  Check which changes in circumstance to report to HMRC and how the changes will affect your Child Benefit. Find out if you're affected by the high income tax charge.

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  • Benefits
  • Child Benefit

• The council says you've had a Housing Benefit overpayment

  Check if you’ve actually been overpaid Housing Benefit and find out how to challenge a overpayment.

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  • Benefits
  • Help on a low income
  • Housing Benefit

• Check if you have the right to reside for benefits

  Check if you have a right to reside in the UK so you can claim benefits as an EEA citizen.

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  • Benefits
  • Claiming benefits if you're from the EU

• Getting financial advice

  Information on choosing a qualified financial adviser, how much advice will cost, a checklist of things to think about before seeing an adviser and how to make a complaint.

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  • Debt and money

• After you've been dismissed

  Help with moving on and finding a new job after being dismissed, including benefits, getting a reference, and explaining your dismissal to a new employer.

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  • Work
  • Leaving a job

• Getting tax advice

  Check where you can get help with a tax problem.

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  • Debt and money

• Check if a room counts as an extra bedroom for Housing Benefit

  Find out how the council decide if you have a spare room in your council home, and when they can reduce your Housing Benefit - sometimes called the ‘bedroom tax’.

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  • Benefits
  • Help on a low income
  • Housing Benefit

• If you’ve been invited to an interview under caution for benefit fraud

  What to do if you’re asked to an interview under caution because you’re being investigated for benefit fraud.

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  • Benefits
  • Benefits - introduction
  • Problems with benefits and tax credits

• How to claim Attendance Allowance

  You can claim Attendance Allowance to help you stay independent for longer if you have an illness or disability. The money can be spent on anything.

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  • Benefits
  • Sick or disabled people and carers
  • Attendance Allowance

• Check if you can get DLA for your child

  DLA isn’t just for children with physical disabilities - it’s also for behavioural and mental health conditions as well as learning disabilities and developmental delay.

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  • Benefits
  • Sick or disabled people and carers
  • Disability Living Allowance for children