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• 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

• If the DWP says you've had an Income Support overpayment

  How to check if you’ve actually been overpaid by the DWP and how to challenge an Income Support overpayment.

• Challenging a Pension Credit decision - mandatory reconsideration

  How to challenge a Pension Credit decision and apply for mandatory reconsideration.

• Stopping a future payment on your debit or credit card

  Information about your rights to stop a future credit or debit card payment, by phone, email or letter, and how to get your money back if money is taken from you account against your wishes

• Check you’re in the right Universal Credit work-related activity group

  There are 4 work-related activity groups for Universal Credit. Check you’re in the right group, and what to do if you think you're in the wrong one

• If your JSA has stopped or been reduced

  What to do if your JSA has stopped or been reduced because of a sanction. Check what help you could get while your JSA has stopped

• Challenging a DLA decision - mandatory reconsideration

  You can challenge a decision on the DLA claim you made for your child. The first step is to ask DWP to review their decision - this is called ‘mandatory reconsideration’.

• If your ESA is ending because of the 1-year limit

  What you can do if your new style or contribution-based ESA is ending