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• How credit cards work

  Information about what credit cards are, how they work, credit limits, interest-free periods and statements

• Check if a change affects your SMI

  Find out if a change you report about your benefits also affects your support for mortgage interest (SMI

• Moving to Universal Credit if you've got a migration notice

  You’ll have to move to Universal Credit when you get a letter from the DWP - this is a 'migration notice'. Your existing benefit will stop. Claim Universal Credit to keep getting financial support

• Discharge from bankruptcy

  Explains when and how you are discharged from bankruptcy, and what happens to your debts and belongings of value afterwards

• Changing debt management plan provider

  Things to think about if you want to switch debt management plan providers, including reasons for switching, the process and problems changing providers may cause

• Get help with the cost of renting privately

  Check if you can get help to pay your rent or council tax. Check if you can get Universal Credit for housing costs or a council tax reduction

• If your JSA has stopped or been reduced

  What to do if your JSA has stopped or been reduced because of a sanction. Check what help you could get while your JSA has stopped

• Your energy supplier has put its prices up

  When your supplier is allowed to raise their prices, notice they should give you, what to do to avoid price rises

• Creditor takes money from your bank account

  Information on third party debt orders to take money owed to you to pay creditors, how they affect your bank account and what to do if a frozen bank account leads to hardship

• Check what benefits you can get

  Get a quick idea of the benefits you can claim, including disability benefits and links to benefit calculators