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• Check if you have to pay a debt

  How to check liability for a debt, including time limits on debts and how to challenge a debt you think you might not be liable

• Check if you can increase your income

  Check you’re getting all the money you’re entitled to - including benefits, grants from charities and the Household Support Fund scheme

• Living together and civil partnership - legal differences

  Information for same-sex and opposite-sex couples on how the law treats civil partnerships and cohabiting couples, including financial matters, adoption, housing and inheritance

• Family

  Get advice on family, looking after people and when a relationship ends

• Creditor takes money from your bank account

  Information on third party debt orders to take money owed to you to pay creditors, how they affect your bank account and what to do if a frozen bank account leads to hardship

• Work out which debts to deal with first

  Check which of your debts are ‘priority debts’ that you should deal with first

• Paying towards your debts after you go bankrupt

  While you’re bankrupt, you might be asked to make payments towards your debts if you have money left over after you’ve paid for the things you need. Find out more

• If a creditor takes money from your wages

  Information on attachment of earnings orders used to take money from your wages to pay back money owed to creditors