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• How volunteering affects your benefits - overview

  Check the rules about volunteering for the benefit you claim to make sure your benefits aren't affected. Read our advice about volunteering while on benefits

• Check how much Housing Benefit you can get

  Find out how much housing benefit you can get. You might be able to get all your rent paid or just some of it depending on your circumstances

• Getting your broken boiler repaired or replaced

  Check whether you need to get your broken boiler repaired or replaced. Check if you can fix the problem yourself or what financial help is available for a new boiler

• Switching from prepayment to paying by credit

  Replace your prepayment meter or switch your smart meter over so you pay for energy after you use it instead of paying in advance

• How to claim Child Benefit

  Check how to claim Child Benefit and what documents you’ll need. Find out how and when you’ll get paid

• If you’re struggling to pay your phone, internet or TV bill

  Check what help providers can give you if you can’t afford to pay your bill - like offering a payment plan or switching you to a social tariff contract

• Discrimination

  Check if you've experienced discrimination under the Equality Act 2010 and what you can do about

• Letter for repaying debt to your energy supplier

  Use this template letter to help you write to your supplier and ask to pay your debt back in small payments

• Check if you can take time off work

  Check your right to time off work, including paid and unpaid leave. You have the right to take time off work in certain circumstances, your 'statutory rights

• Check the reason you were chosen for redundancy was fair

  Check if your employer can make you redundant, including discriminatory reasons for redundancy and what happens if your workplace moves or closes