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• Check if you can increase your income

  Check you’re getting all the money you’re entitled to - including benefits, grants from charities and payments from government schemes.

• Check if a change affects your Housing Benefit

  Find out what changes of circumstances to tell your local council so you get the right amount of Housing Benefit

• Check what an IVA is

  Find out how an individual voluntary arrangement (IVA) works and the type of debts you can include

• Dealing with the financial affairs of someone who has died

  Information on the role of the executor or administrator in dealing with the estate of a deceased person

• 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

• Work out how much compensation you could get for discrimination

  To work out how much you can ask for, you need to consider what a tribunal can order your employer to pay you if you win your discrimination claim

• Apply for SMI

  How to apply for support for mortgage interest (SMI) if you get benefits

• Your payment card was used without your permission – distance sales

  What you can do if your payment card has been used for a distance sale purchase by internet, mail order, TV, phone or fax without your permission