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• Your right to personal liberty

  Explains how the right to personal liberty is protected by article 5 of the Human Rights Act 1998 meaning you cannot be detained for reasons other than criminal activity or mental health issues

• Work

  Get advice on your employment rights and ways to solve problems at work

• Housing

  Get advice on renting, council tax, homelessness and problems where you live

• Getting sick pay when you're pregnant

  Check how getting sick pay could affect your maternity pay. If you’re off sick while you’re pregnant, it can affect how much money you get

• If you're being evicted because you asked for repairs

  Find out what you can do if you're being evicted because you asked for repairs and make sure you know how to get help to challenge the eviction

• Payment of benefits and tax credits

  Check how benefits and tax credits are paid - usually by direct credit transfer into bank, building society or Post Office card accounts. Find out about the Payment Exception Service if you can't use an account

• Changing your claimant commitment

  Find out how to get your Universal Credit claimant commitment changed if your work coach asks you to do too much work-related activity as part of your claim

• Complaining about the public sector equality duty

  How to use the public sector equality duty to challenge policies or decisions of a public authority which you think discriminate or put you at a disadvantage

• What are human rights?

  Explains what human rights are and how they are protected by law. Also lists organisations offer further information

• How are your human rights protected by the courts?

  Explains how courts must protect human rights when applying the law and which laws the courts must apply, even if they breach the Human Rights Act 1998