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• Check if you can pass the habitual residence test for housing

  Find out what the habitual residence test is for housing, who needs to pass it and what evidence you need.

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  • Housing
  • Help with housing if you're from the EU

• 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.

  • In:
  • Law and courts
  • Legal system

• 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

• Who's breaching your human rights?

  Explains how the Human Rights Act 1988 protects you from a public authority, or private organisation carrying out a public function.

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  • Law and courts
  • Civil rights
  • Human rights

• British and Irish citizens - claiming benefits

  Whether or not a British or Irish citizen needs to satisfy the conditions of the Habitual Residence Test when returning to the UK from abroad.

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  • Benefits

• Claiming Attendance Allowance if you're terminally ill

  There's a quick application process to apply for Attendance Allowance for people who have been diagnosed with a terminal illness and aren't expected to live more than 6 months.

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

• Check if you're eligible for PIP

  Conditions you have to meet to get Personal Independence Payment (PIP), a benefit that helps with extra costs if you're ill, have a disability or mental health issues.

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

• Prepare for an asylum interview

  Get help preparing for an asylum interview (or ‘substantive interview’) when you apply for refugee status - it’s a chance for you to put your case across to someone from the Home Office.

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  • Immigration

• 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