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• Carers: help and support

  Help and support available for carers including social care needs assessments and financial help

• Getting paid if your employer goes out of business or disappears

  Check if your employer has officially shut down. Find out how to apply for money you’re owed

• Living together and marriage - legal differences

  Differences between how the law treats married and cohabiting couples including financial matters, responsibility for children and housing

• Accidents and illness when travelling independently

  What you should do if you’re an independent traveller and you fall ill or have an accident while you’re on holiday abroad

• 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

• How the DWP makes a decision on PIP claims

  How Personal Independence Payment (PIP) claims are assessed by the Department for Work and Pensions, and information on the descriptors and scoring used

• Cancelling a service you’ve arranged

  When you can cancel a service, how to get your money back, how to negotiate with the business

• Maternity leave - your options when it ends

  Decide whether or not to return to work, and know your rights over working part-time and paying back maternity pay