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• Subletting your home - what you need to think about first

  What to think about before subletting part of your home and becoming a resident landlord.

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  • Housing
  • Renting a home
  • Subletting and lodging
  • Subletting

• Check if you're eligible for ESA

  Use our quick checker to see if you might be eligible for ESA (Employment and Support Allowance), or read the full eligibility criteria.

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  • Benefits
  • Sick or disabled people and carers
  • Employment and Support Allowance (ESA)

• Report human trafficking

  How to identify and report human trafficking if someone you know is a victim of trafficking

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  • Immigration

• Challenging the council’s decision about your housing application

  Check how to challenge a council’s decision about your application for social housing.

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  • Housing
  • Renting from the council or a housing association

• Finding free or affordable legal help

  Find out how to get legal help if you're on a low income, including advice from a law centre or legal aid solicitor, and trial or tribunal representation by a pro bono barrister.

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  • Law and courts
  • Legal system

• Discrimination in services and public functions - what's meant by public functions?

  Explains the kinds of services or activities which count as 'public functions' and how the public authorities that carry out these functions must not, by law, discriminate against you.

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  • Consumer
  • Discrimination in goods and services
  • Services provided by a public authority

• 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

• How to claim PIP

  How to claim Personal Independence Payment (PIP) and the basic information you'll need to have to hand when you start your claim.

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  • Benefits
  • Sick or disabled people and carers
  • Personal Independence Payment

• How to claim PIP if you have a terminal illness

  How to make a fast-track claim for Personal Independence Allowance (PIP) if you have a terminal illness.

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  • Benefits
  • Sick or disabled people and carers
  • Personal Independence Payment

• Bankruptcy - overview

  Overview of bankruptcy and how it might be a suitable option to help you get out of debt.

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  • Debt and money
  • Debt solutions
  • Bankruptcy
  • Bankruptcy explained