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• Applying for council housing or a housing association home

  Applying for council housing or a housing association home Getting on the waiting list for a council home Challenge the council’s decision about your housing application If you’re offered an unsuitable council or housing association home

• How to claim Housing Benefit

  How to claim Housing Benefit, including if you can backdate your claim. How to claim a Discretionary Housing Payment too

• Check if a change affects your Pension Credit

  Find out what changes of circumstances you have to report to make sure you get the right amount of Pension Credit

• Appealing a Housing Benefit decision at a tribunal

  How to appeal if your local council won’t change a decision about your Housing Benefit

• Avoiding creditors making you bankrupt

  Lists actions you can take to avoid being made bankrupt by someone you owe money

• 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

• Check the rules after you go bankrupt

  Find out the rules and restrictions when you're bankrupt. While you're bankrupt there's certain rules you need to follow, these are known as 'restrictions

• Check your rights if you're dismissed

  Find out what to do if you're sacked from your job. Check if you can claim unfair dismissal