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• 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

• Paying back a working or child tax credits overpayment

  Change how quickly you repay a tax credits overpayment, and find out about other ways to pay

• Information your debt management plan provider must give you

  Explains what to do if a debt management plan provider has not given you all the information you are entitled to when choosing or signing up for a debt management plan

• Interruptions to your water supply

  Your rights when your water supply is interrupted for repairs or because of an emergency such as burst main pipe and what you can do when things go wrong

• Extra benefits and help you can get while on DLA

  If you get DLA for your child, you might be able to get extra money from other benefits, a blue badge or a reduction in road tax bills

• Ending a joint hire purchase or a conditional sale agreement - letter

  Letter to end a joint hire purchase or conditional sale agreement. You might need to do this if you can't afford the payments any more

• Getting travel insurance

  What you need to think about before you take out a travel insurance policy

• Living together and marriage - legal differences

  Differences between how the law treats married and cohabiting couples including financial matters, responsibility for children and housing

• What happens when a debt relief order is made?

  Explains what happens once a debt relief order has been made and your responsibility to report a change of circumstances, or information you forgot to include in the original application

• Young people's rights

  Rights of children and young people including information on proof of age, discrimination, personal records, punishment and religion