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• Get help if you use oil, LPG, coal or wood to heat your home

  If you use oil, wood, liquefied petroleum gas (LPG), biomass or coal to heat your home, you might be able to get help to pay your bills

• Taking legal action about discrimination

  Process for taking court action about discrimination, including sending a letter before a claim, filling out a claim form and how a defendant should respond

• Pension and compensation schemes for the armed forces, veterans and their families

  Information on pension schemes for current and former members of the armed forces. Covers types of scheme, help for war widows and widowers, help for people who sustained injuries during their service and sources of further help

• A business takes legal action against you to recover losses for theft

  What to do if you are accused of shoplifting, theft or negligence at work where the business is trying to recover compensation for alleged losses

• Hire purchase and conditional sale

  Information about how hire purchase and conditional sale agreements work, the right to end a hire purchase agreement and what happens if the buyer is unable to pay

• Applying for flexible working

  Check what flexible working is, how to make a flexible working request and what your employer will do next

• Maternity pay - how to get it

  What you need to do to get statutory or contractual maternity pay from your employer

• Claiming constructive dismissal

  Find out what you should think about before deciding to resign and claim constructive dismissal

• How much pension you'll need

  Advice on planning for financial commitments in retirement and saving for a pension

• 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