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• Arranging financial support after you separate

  If you're married or in a civil partnership, you can apply for financial support (‘spousal maintenance’) from your ex when you separate. Find out more about what you can get or need to pay.

• 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

• Paying back an Income Support overpayment

  Find out the different ways you can pay back an Income Support overpayment, including in instalments.

• Creditors still contacting you - debt relief orders

  Explains what to do if you are being chased for a debt covered by your debt relief order and the situations in which creditors are still allowed to contact you while the order is in place

• Struggling to pay - administration orders

  Action you can take if a change in circumstances makes it difficult to repay your administration order. Covers what creditors might do if you miss payments, review hearings and revoking the order

• 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

• Negotiating your debt with bailiffs

  Find out how you can negotiate your debt with bailiffs - including working out your what you can afford and making a payment arrangement

• 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