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• After you've been dismissed

  Help with moving on and finding a new job after being dismissed, including benefits, getting a reference, and explaining your dismissal to a new employer.

• Help with your claim

  If you're applying for child benefits read our advice to help with your claim. Find out how to claim child benefits and check if changes affect your payment.

• Challenging a decision by the DWP or HMRC

  Information about challenging a decision by the DWP or HMRC. Find out more about asking for mandatory reconsideration and appealing against a benefit decision.

• Check how you’ve been discriminated against

  If want to take action about discrimination, you’ll need to show that what happened counts as a type of discrimination under the Equality Act. Find out more

• Check your options for getting out of debt

  Find out what help is available if you’re struggling to pay your debts, including breathing space, debt management plans, administration orders, IVAs, DROs and bankruptcy

• If your energy supplier has increased your direct debit payments

  Why your payments may go up, checking your payments are correct, agreeing new monthly payments

• Dealing with mortgage arrears

  What happens if you miss a mortgage payment, including how to agree a repayment plan with your lender so you can pay your mortgage in smaller amounts

• Getting a Universal Credit budgeting advance

  Find out how to get a Universal Credit budgeting advance, a loan for emergency and one-off expenses. Who’s eligible, how much you'll get and how to apply

• If you used to get tax credits

  Check what you can do now tax credits have ended. For example, claiming other benefits, challenging a decision and making sure your final payment is correct.

• Living together and civil partnership - legal differences

  Information for same-sex and opposite-sex couples on how the law treats civil partnerships and cohabiting couples, including financial matters, adoption, housing and inheritance