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• How changes to immigration rules might affect you

  The government announced its UK immigration white paper. Find out if the new rules affect your visa, or applications for indefinite leave or British citizenship

• Check if you can get Housing Benefit

  Check if you can claim Housing Benefit to help pay your rent - and find out if you’re entitled to the maximum amount of Housing Benefit

• Get advice about health costs and services

  Get advice about help with NHS costs and services. Also, where to complain about a health service and social care for older or vulnerable people

• Check if your immigration status lets you get free healthcare

  Find out about charges for NHS treatment if you're from outside the UK, check if you can get free NHS treatment and which treatment is always free

• If you've been refused reasonable adjustments

  If you didn't get the adjustments you need, check if you've experienced a type of discrimination called ‘failure to make reasonable adjustments

• If you've overstayed your visa or leave

  If you’ve overstayed your visa or leave, you have 90 days to leave the country. You can't usually extend your visa or leave once you've overstayed

• Discrimination by a business or service because of pregnancy or maternity

  Check if you've been discriminated against because you're pregnant, breastfeeding or gave birth. Check if it counts as pregnancy and maternity discrimination

• Creditors still chasing you after you go bankrupt

  Explains the situations when some creditors may still be able to contact you, after you go bankrupt

• If you need a guarantor to start renting

  Check what it means to have a guarantor for your rent. Check what their responsibilities are and when the guarantee agreement ends

• Check if a room counts as an extra bedroom for Housing Benefit

  Find out how the council decide if you have a spare room in your council home, and when they can reduce your Housing Benefit - sometimes called the ‘bedroom tax