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• Check if you’re allowed an extra bedroom for Housing Benefit

  Find out if you can get Housing Benefit for another room in your council home because you have a disability or someone is away from home

• Appealing a Child Benefit decision at tribunal

  Find out if you can appeal your Child Benefit mandatory reconsideration decision. Check when and how to appeal

• How to apply for an IVA

  Find out how to apply for an individual voluntary arrangement (IVA). Before you start, make sure an IVA is the right debt solution for you

• Discrimination because of sexual orientation

  Taking action about discrimination on the grounds of sexual orientation, explaining when it is unlawful or not unlawful and organisations which can help

• Check how to make a formal complaint about discrimination

  Check what to say in your formal complaint to show that discrimination happened. You can also find out what to do if you’re not happy with the response you get

• Get a hardship payment if you've been sanctioned

  If you've been sanctioned, you might be able to get some emergency money to help you cover household expenses. This is called a hardship payment

• Complaining about your private landlord

  Find out how to complain about your landlord if they’re not doing what they should and know when you can take court action

• Check what you can do about harassment

  Check if the harassment is discrimination under the Equality Act 2010, and if you can take legal action about

• Updating and proving your pre-settled or settled status

  Find out how to view your status, keep it up to date and use it to prove your right to get benefits

• Changing your claimant commitment

  Find out how to get your Universal Credit claimant commitment changed if your work coach asks you to do too much work-related activity as part of your claim