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• Check if you can get Housing Benefit

  Check if you can claim Housing Benefit to help pay your rent - and find out if you’re entitled to the maximum amount of Housing Benefit.

• Check if a room counts as an extra bedroom for Housing Benefit

  Find out how the council decide if you have a spare room in your council home, and when they can reduce your Housing Benefit - sometimes called the ‘bedroom tax’.

• Get help with the cost of renting privately

  Check if you can get help to pay your rent or council tax. Check if you can get Universal Credit for housing costs or a council tax reduction.

• Get compensation if you have a power cut

  How to claim compensation if your gas or electricity supply is interrupted, when you're entitled to compensation, how much you'll get

• Your right to respect for private and family life

  Explains how the right to respect for your family and private life is protected by article 8 of the Human Rights Act 1998 and when a public authority may be breach the article

• Getting your housing plan from the council

  Check when the council will give you a housing plan. Check how it can prevent you becoming homeless or help you find a new home.

• If the car you bought is still on hire purchase

  Your rights and options if you find out the car you bought is still subject to a hire purchase or conditional sale agreement

• Complaining about your landlord's failure to make repairs if you are a social housing tenant

  Complaining about your landlord's failure to make repairs to your social housing landlord, councillor or an Ombudsman and what to include in your complaint.

• Q8 - getting around safely

  Help to fill in Q8: getting around safely for your ESA application. Find out what this means and how to correctly complete the question

• Q2 - standing and sitting

  Help to fill in Q2: standing and sitting for your ESA application. Find out what this means and how to correctly complete the question