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• Credit rating - impact of debt management plan

  Explains how having a debt management plan may affect your credit rating.

• Credit rating - impact of debt relief order

  Explains that a debt relief order must be noted in your credit reference file and how it affects your credit rating, making it hard to get credit in future.

• Paying a court fine

  What happens if you don’t pay a court fine in time, including how to ask for more time to pay, and what to do if you can’t afford to pay

• Staying in the UK as the parent of a child who lives here

  Check if you can apply for a parent visa, including the rules about your income

• Dealing with rent arrears

  Check you’re responsible for paying rent arrears, find a way of affordably repaying them and make sure you're getting all the help you're entitled

• If a creditor takes money from your wages

  Information on attachment of earnings orders used to take money from your wages to pay back money owed to creditors

• After you get refugee status

  Finding new housing and applying for benefits after you get refugee status

• How much pension you'll need

  Advice on planning for financial commitments in retirement and saving for a pension

• Maternity pay - how much you can get

  Find out how much maternity pay you'll get and make sure you get everything you're entitled

• What you'll need to do on Universal Credit

  Find out what you'll need to do on Universal Credit. Get information about if a change affects your claim and how the new earing rules could impact your claim.