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• Reporting self-employed earnings if you get Universal Credit

  Work out your monthly earnings if you’re self employed. Find out how to report your earnings if you get Universal Credit and how to get help with doing

• Maternity pay - how to get it

  What you need to do to get statutory or contractual maternity pay from your employer

• Managing affairs for someone else

  Information on managing someone’s affairs including ordinary, lasting and enduring power of attorney, and mental capacity

• Making a will

  Information about making a will and how to change or end a will. How to protect your will against being challenged

• Sorting out school problems

  Find out how to sort out difficulties with your child’s education, including how to complain if a problem at their school isn’t resolved

• Claiming compensation from water companies

  How to claim compensation from a water company. Read this to find out more about the standards water companies must stick to and when you can claim

• Check your rights if you’re a subtenant

  Check your rights if your landlord wants to evict you or if their tenancy ends. Check what repairs your landlord is responsible

• WaterSure scheme – help with paying water bills

  Watersure is a scheme to help save money with your water bill, if you get certain benefits and you have three or more children under 19 or someone in your house has a medical condition that means more water gets used

• If you owe child maintenance

  Find out what the CMS can do if you don't pay child maintenance and how they can recover payments

• Check if your employer's dismissal process is unfair

  Make sure your employer has a fair dismissal process and follows the Acas code of practice - and know when to challenge them if they don't