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• Getting help for your child from your local council

  What support is available for you and your family - including extra help if your child is a ‘child in need

• Getting on the waiting list for a council home

  Check if you can get on the waiting list and how to fill in your application. Check what happens when you're on the list.

• 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 owe child maintenance

  Find out what the CMS can do if you don't pay child maintenance and how they can recover payments

• You might have to go to court as a witness

  What to do if you've been told you might have to go to court as a victim or witness including information on who'll contact you about the trial

• Preparing to go to court as a witness

  How to get ready to go to court including information on what to wear, asking your employer for time off and what to do if you can't make the date.

• 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.

• Dealing with Council Tax arrears

  What happens when you miss a council tax payment, and how to negotiate with your council to pay what you owe in smaller amounts

• If the Pension Service says you've had a Pension Credit overpayment

  How to check if you’ve actually been overpaid by the Pension Service and how to challenge a Pension Credit overpayment.

• Q14 - coping with changes

  Help to fill in Q14: coping with changes for your ESA application. Find out what this means and how to correctly complete the question.