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• Parental bereavement pay - what you're entitled to and how to get it

  Find out if you're entitled to parental bereavement pay, and how to arrange it with your employer

• How to claim Housing Benefit

  How to claim Housing Benefit, including if you can backdate your claim. How to claim a Discretionary Housing Payment too

• If you're not offered housing after a homeless application

  Check how you can find somewhere to live and stay tonight, for example a night shelter or hostel. Check your options for finding long-term accommodation

• If there's a child protection plan for your child

  Explains what a child protection plan is, why it might be put in place to protect a child, what it covers, reviews and when it may end

• After you get refugee status

  Finding new housing and applying for benefits after you get refugee status

• Get help if you're being evicted

  Check what help you can get if you’re given a ‘section 21’ or ‘section 8’ eviction notice. Check if you can get money to help you find somewhere to live

• Appealing a Housing Benefit decision at a tribunal

  How to appeal if your local council won’t change a decision about your Housing Benefit.

• Getting your landlord to do repairs

  Getting your landlord to do repairs Getting repairs done if you're renting privately Getting repairs done if you rent from a council or housing association Asking the council to help you get repairs done Going to court if your landlord won't do repairs

• Check your employment status

  Find out what your employment status is so you can understand how it affects your rights

• Maternity pay - how much you can get

  Find out how much maternity pay you'll get and make sure you get everything you're entitled