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• Getting help with home improvements

  Check the types of grants and loans you can get to make improvements in your home - including the disabled facilities grant

• Check your rights if you share accommodation

  Check who needs to pay rent and what happens when someone moves out. Check the difference between joint tenancies and sole tenancies

• Check if you can get pre-settled status or settled status

  Find out how you and your family can stay in the UK and your rights after Brexit if you’re from the EU, European Economic Area (EEA) or Switzerland

• Payment of benefits and tax credits

  Check how benefits and tax credits are paid - usually by direct credit transfer into bank, building society or Post Office card accounts. Find out about the Payment Exception Service if you can't use an account

• If the council decide your landlord has to do repairs

  Check what your landlord has to do if the council have inspected your home and sent them a legal notice. If the council haven’t helped, find out how to complain

• Check if a change affects your SMI

  Find out if a change you report about your benefits also affects your support for mortgage interest (SMI

• Appealing against a benefit decision

  Appealing to an independent tribunal if you disagree with a mandatory reconsideration decision made by the DWP or HMRC

• Offsetting rent arrears because repairs haven't been done

  How rent arrears for social housing tenants can be offset against the damages for not making repairs if your landlord is taking possession proceedings against you because of rent arrears.