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• Paying back an Income Support overpayment

  Find out the different ways you can pay back an Income Support overpayment, including in instalments

• Critical illness insurance

  Information on critical illness insurance, what it covers, factors to consider before taking out critical illness insurance and how to buy an insurance policy

• Get help with costs if you have a child or you’re pregnant

  Check what help you can get with the cost of living. This might include extra benefits and grants, free childcare, help with school costs and the Healthy Start scheme

• Getting help and compensation if you were abused as a child

  What you can do if you were abused as a child including getting support, reporting the abuse to the police, checking records and claiming compensation

• Stopping bailiffs if you don't owe the debt

  Check how to stop bailiffs visiting you if you don’t owe a debt, find out how to prove you don’t owe the debt and how to complain if the bailiffs still say you owe the money

• Paying your water bills if you're renting

  Payment issues and problems you may have as a tenant with your water bill and what you can do

• Complaining about the public sector equality duty

  How to use the public sector equality duty to challenge policies or decisions of a public authority which you think discriminate or put you at a disadvantage

• Check if you can get DLA for your child

  DLA isn’t just for children with physical disabilities - it’s also for behavioural and mental health conditions as well as learning disabilities and developmental delay.

• Check if a change affects your JSA

  What to do if you have a change of circumstances while getting JSA. How to report changes to your work, income, family, health or immigration status.

• Check how much redundancy pay you can get

  Find out if you can get redundancy pay, and check what contractual or statutory redundancy payments you'll get