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• Getting help with home improvements

  Check the types of grants and loans you can get to make improvements in your home - including the disabled facilities grant

• Who is responsible for repairing drains and sewers

  The difference between drains, lateral drains and sewers and who is responsible for repairing them, and asking a water company to adopt a private or unadopted sewer

• Types of insurance

  Overview and content list for types of insurance. Read advice about the different types of insurance, including building, travel and vehicle insurance.

• Banking

  Overview and content list for banking. Read our advice on getting a bank account, complaining about banks, stopping a payment and more

• Dividing up money and belongings when you separate

  If you and your partner separate, you need to decide how to divide your home and your pension. You also need to divide possessions and money in bank accounts

• Payment of benefits and tax credits

  Check how benefits and tax credits are paid - usually by direct credit transfer into bank, building society or Post Office card accounts. Find out about the Payment Exception Service if you can't use an account.

• Check if a financial service has followed the rules

  Check what rules financial services need to follow, including banks, mortgage lenders and creditors, and how you can complain

• Getting benefits if you’ve recently moved to the UK

  Check how to show you’re habitually resident, pass the ‘past presence test’ or pass the ‘3-month living in test

• Letter to complain about faulty goods supplied with a service

  Letter to complain to trader about faulty goods they supplied with a service

• State Pension

  Check how much State Pension you can get and how many qualifying years you need to get the full amount