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• Get help with costs if you have a child or you’re pregnant

  Check what help you can get with the cost of living. This might include extra benefits and grants, free childcare, help with school costs and the Healthy Start scheme

• Getting your tenancy deposit back if you rent privately

  Find out how to get your deposit back from your landlord when your tenancy ends and whether your landlord can keep your money to pay for damage or breakages.

• Check how bankruptcy affects your home

  You might not have to move home if you go bankrupt. It depends on things like whether you rent or own your home, and who you live with. Find out more.

• Moving home – dealing with your energy supply

  What to tell your current supplier before you move, how to set up a new supply at your new property, where to get more help.

• If your ex-partner is trying to make you leave

  Find out your rights if you and your partner split up and they try to throw you out of your home.

• Check if you can take time off work

  Check your right to time off work, including paid and unpaid leave. You have the right to take time off work in certain circumstances, your 'statutory rights'.

• Challenging a Housing Benefit decision

  How to appeal if you've been refused Housing Benefit or your payments have been reduced.

• Appealing a tax credits decision at a tribunal

  What to expect at a tax credits tribunal hearing and how best to prepare

• Check if you're disabled under the Equality Act

  Check the definition of disability for discrimination at work under the Equality Act 2010

• Getting your money back if you paid by card or PayPal

  Check how to get a refund if you paid for something by credit card, debit card, charge card, or PayPal. Find out about 'Section 75' and 'chargeback