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• Make your home more energy efficient

  Save energy at home to reduce your bills. Find ways to improve your home’s energy efficiency so you can save money on electricity and gas

• Who's breaching your human rights?

  Explains how the Human Rights Act 1988 protects you from a public authority, or private organisation carrying out a public function

• Is your home at risk if your partner is bankrupt?

  Explains what could happen to your home, if you own or rent it jointly with a partner who goes bankrupt

• Preparing your finances for retirement

  When you can start getting your pension, checklist of things to do leading up to your retirement, getting help with Pension Wise, and what to do if you've lost track of a pension

• Getting benefits if you’ve recently moved to the UK

  Check how to show you’re habitually resident, pass the ‘past presence test’ or pass the ‘3-month living in test

• Getting Universal Credit if you’re sick or disabled

  Check if you can apply for support if you can't work because you're sick or disabled. Universal Credit is available for people with sickness or disabilities

• If your ESA is stopped or reduced

  What to do if your ESA is stopped or reduced. If the DWP stop or reduce your ESA, you might be able to challenge them or start a new claim

• When can you use the public sector equality duty?

  Explains when you can use the public sector equality duty to challenge decisions or policies which discriminate against you, or put you at a disadvantage

• WaterSure scheme – help with paying water bills

  Watersure is a scheme to help save money with your water bill, if you get certain benefits and you have three or more children under 19 or someone in your house has a medical condition that means more water gets used

• Getting information about your discrimination case

  How to use the questionnaire procedure before taking legal action to get information on how you have been discriminated against by a person or organisation