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• How volunteering affects your benefits - overview

  Check the rules about volunteering for the benefit you claim to make sure your benefits aren't affected. Read our advice about volunteering while on benefits

• Taking action

  Information about taking action against discrimination at work. Get help if you need to take action, including deciding what to do and collecting evidence.

• Universal Credit payments if you're self-employed

  Find out how your self-employed Universal Credit payments work, including how the DWP calculates your payments based on your income floor.

• Extending your family visa

  You can usually apply to extend a family visa before it ends. Check if you can extend your family visa when it comes to an end

• Check you've got the right amount of holiday pay

  Find out what holiday pay you should get and what to do if your employer doesn't pay you the right amount

• Getting a job or pay rise while on Universal Credit

  Find out what to do if you get a job or pay rise, when you can refuse a job offer and how a job or increased pay will affect your Universal Credit payment

• Arguments for challenging a sanction

  Find out what makes a sanction unfair, how and when to challenge one, how to get more details about your sanction and where to get help challenging

• Problems with goods - letter before court action

  Letter to send as a last attempt to ask a trader to sort out a problem before you take court action