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• Help with school costs

  Find out what help you can get to pay for school lunches, uniforms and transport if you’re on a low income

• What is Universal Credit?

  What is Universal Credit and how it works - including how it's different from other benefits and what other benefits you can claim at the same time

• Check if a change affects your Pension Credit

  Find out what changes of circumstances you have to report to make sure you get the right amount of Pension Credit

• After you get refugee status

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

• Check if you can challenge a JSA sanction

  Check if you can challenge your JSA sanction. What arguments you can use and what evidence you’ll have to provide

• Maternity pay - what you're entitled to

  Find out whether you're entitled to statutory maternity pay, contractual maternity pay or Maternity Allowance

• Complaining about benefits services

  Complaining about benefits services. You should consider complaining if the people dealing with your benefits claim or issue have handled it badly

• Check if your employer can make changes to your contract

  Find out what you can do if you don’t agree with changes to working hours, pay rate, job role or other contract terms

• Extra money and help if you get Universal Credit

  Find out about extra money and help you can get because you receive Universal Credit. You can also check what other benefits and support you can apply

• Check if your landlord can increase your rent

  Find out how to deal with a rent increase, find out how to negotiate to get a lower rent and check how you can challenge your rent increase