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• Check what benefits to claim if you’re sick or disabled

  Find out what benefits you should claim if you're sick or disabled. There are a few options and you should apply for the one that suits your circumstances best

• Getting paid if your employer goes out of business or disappears

  Check if your employer has officially shut down. Find out how to apply for money you’re owed

• Creditor has sent a statutory demand - bankruptcy

  Explains the need to act quickly, if you receive a statutory demand from someone who is trying to make you bankrupt

• Benefit overpayments

  Causes of benefit overpayments and what to do if you've been told you've been paid too much

• If you have nowhere to stay tonight

  Check how to get somewhere to stay if you have nowhere to stay tonight. Check how to get into a night shelter, hostel or refuge

• Arranging financial support after you separate

  If you're married or in a civil partnership, you can apply for financial support (‘spousal maintenance’) from your ex when you separate. Find out more about what you can get or need to pay

• Paying off a credit agreement early

  Find out if your credit agreement is covered by the Consumer Credit Act 1974 and how to pay it off early

• If you're being evicted because you asked for repairs

  Find out what you can do if you're being evicted because you asked for repairs and make sure you know how to get help to challenge the eviction

• Check the rules after you go bankrupt

  Find out what you can and can’t do when you go bankrupt. While you’re bankrupt, you have to follow certain rules. These rules are called 'restrictions

• Request to write off a joint debt - letter

  Letter for when you can't make an offer of repayment on a joint debt and your circumstances are not going to improve