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• Getting a job or pay increase while on Universal Credit

  What to do if you get a job or pay increase, when you can refuse a job offer, how a job or increased pay will affect your universal credit payment.

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  • Benefits
  • Universal Credit

• Challenging a Universal Credit decision - mandatory reconsideration

  Find out how to challenge a Universal Credit decision.

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  • Benefits
  • Universal Credit

• Getting Universal Credit if you're sick or disabled

  Find out how to explain your health condition to the DWP so you can get Universal Credit without having to work.

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  • Benefits
  • Universal Credit

• What to do if you've been sanctioned while on Universal Credit

  Check you’ve been sanctioned correctly and challenge an unfair sanction.

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  • Benefits
  • Universal Credit

• Get a hardship payment if you've been sanctioned

  Apply for a Universal Credit hardship payment if you’ve been sanctioned.

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  • Benefits
  • Universal Credit

• Working and child tax credits

  Find out if you can get working or child tax credits and how to claim. If you have a tax credits overpayment find out how to challenge the decision.

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  • Benefits
  • Help on a low income
  • Before you claim tax credits
  • Help with your tax credits claim
  • Tax credits appeals

• Check you’re in the right Universal Credit work-related activity group

  Make sure your work coach isn’t asking you to do too much work-related activity as part of your Universal Credit claim.

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  • Benefits
  • Universal Credit

• Complaining about benefits services

  Complaining about issues like delays or missing documents.

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  • Benefits
  • Benefits - introduction
  • Problems with benefits and tax credits
  • Challenging benefit decisions

• Pension Credit

  Find out if you can get Pension Credit and how much you could get. If your Pension Credit has stopped or you have an overpayment, find out how to challenge the decision.

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  • Benefits
  • Help on a low income
  • Before you claim Pension Credit
  • Help with your Pension Credit claim
  • Pension Credit appeals

• 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