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• Dividing up money and belongings when you separate

  If you and your partner separate, you need to decide how to divide your home and your pension. You also need to divide possessions and money in bank accounts

• Proving your right to work in the UK

  Find out what you need to show your employer to prove your right to work in the UK. Check what to do if you’ve been dismissed or lost a job offer after your employer checked your right to work

• Hire purchase and conditional sale

  Information about how hire purchase and conditional sale agreements work, the right to end a hire purchase agreement and what happens if the buyer is unable to pay

• Vehicle insurance – making a claim if you’re in an accident

  What to do if your car is in an accident and you want to make a claim on your motor insurance

• Starting a homeless application

  Find how to apply to the council for help if you’re homeless

• If you want to sell your home and rent it back

  Check the risks of using sale and rent back schemes and the rules firms must follow

• If the Pension Service says you've had a Pension Credit overpayment

  How to check if you’ve actually been overpaid by the Pension Service and how to challenge a Pension Credit overpayment

• If your employer says you owe them money

  When you leave a job, your employer can only ask you to pay back money if it’s for something you’ve specifically agreed to in writing. Find out more

• Pension and compensation schemes for the armed forces, veterans and their families

  Information on pension schemes for current and former members of the armed forces. Covers types of scheme, help for war widows and widowers, help for people who sustained injuries during their service and sources of further help

• A business takes legal action against you to recover losses for theft

  What to do if you are accused of shoplifting, theft or negligence at work where the business is trying to recover compensation for alleged losses