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• Check if you can pay less on your water bills

  Get help if you’re having trouble paying your water bills. Find out how to save money on your bills and if it's worth getting a water meter installed.

• Getting paid when you leave a job

  Check if your final pay when you leave a job is right and what steps to take if it isn't.

• 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 how bankruptcy affects your job

  Find out how bankruptcy affects your job, and what work you can do after going bankrupt

• Mortgages and secured loans

  Information about mortgages and secured loans, including Islamic mortgages. Also covers credit brokers and the charges made for their services

• Reporting a change while you're on ESA

  What changes of circumstance to tell the DWP about while you're getting ESA, how to contact the DWP about the changes

• If you want to end your private tenancy

  Check what steps you need to take to end your tenancy agreement. Check what will happen if you leave without giving notice

• Joint debts and belongings if your partner is bankrupt

  Explains what happens to any joint debts taken out with your partner, if they go bankrupt

• Moving from other benefits

  Universal Credit is replacing 6 ‘legacy benefits’. Find out how moving to Universal Credit will affect you if you're already getting other benefits

• Student housing - living in halls

  Explains the housing status of students living in halls of residence provided by their university. Also covers rent, deposits, administration fees, bills and council tax