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• Getting evidence to support your PIP claim

  How to keep a diary and get supporting evidence from health professionals to help your Personal Independence Payment (PIP) claim

• If you're working too many hours

  Check how many hours your employer can ask you to work and if you have to do overtime. Check how you can ask to reduce your hours

• How much DLA you can get for your child

  You can get between £28.70 and £184.30 a week in Disability Living Allowance (DLA) to help look after a child who has a disability or health condition

• Who's breaching your human rights?

  Explains how the Human Rights Act 1988 protects you from a public authority, or private organisation carrying out a public function

• Check if your employer can make changes to your contract

  Find out what you can do if you don’t agree with changes to working hours, pay rate, job role or other contract terms

• Challenging a DLA decision - mandatory reconsideration

  You can challenge a decision on the DLA claim you made for your child. The first step is to ask DWP to review their decision - this is called ‘mandatory reconsideration

• Maternity leave - your options when it ends

  Decide whether or not to return to work, and know your rights over working part-time and paying back maternity pay

• Proving your right to live in the UK with the Windrush scheme

  Find out how to prove your right to live in the UK if you arrived before 1989 or your parents arrived before 1973

• Choosing voluntary redundancy

  Work out if voluntary redundancy is right for you, and know when it affects benefits, mortgage protection or early retirement

• If a problem with National Insurance is affecting your benefits

  What to do if you can’t find your National Insurance number or if you think your National Insurance record is wrong and it’s affecting the benefits you can claim