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• Challenge the council’s decision about your housing application

  Check what to do if you disagree with the council's decision. Check how to ask for a review - this depends on why you’re challenging the decision

• If you've overstayed your visa or leave

  If you’ve overstayed your visa or leave, you have 90 days to leave the country. You can't usually extend your visa or leave once you've overstayed

• Staying in the UK on a visa without your partner

  If you’re in the UK as a dependant on your partner’s visa, you’ll need to check your eligibility to stay in the UK and apply for a new visa if you can. If you’re not eligible to stay in the UK you might have to leave

• Problems with your settled status decision

  Find out what to do if you’re still waiting for a decision on your EU Settlement Scheme application. What you should do if you got pre-settled status but you were expecting settled status or if you’ve been refused any status

• Check if you can get Pension Credit

  Check if you can claim Pension Credit, a weekly benefit made up of 2 parts - Guarantee Credit and Savings Credit

• Help with school costs

  Find out what help you can get to pay for school lunches, uniforms and transport if you’re on a low income

• Check if you can get DLA for your child

  DLA isn’t just for children with physical disabilities - it’s also for behavioural and mental health conditions as well as learning disabilities and developmental delay

• Check if you're eligible for Universal Credit

  Check if you can get Universal Credit, a benefit you can claim if you're on a low income or unemployed. Read our advice to check if you're eligible

• Getting benefits if you’ve recently moved to the UK

  Check how to show you’re habitually resident, pass the ‘past presence test’ or pass the ‘3-month living in test

• If your local council discriminates against you

  Check what you can do if you’ve been discriminated against by a public authority - including if you need to take your local council to court