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• Getting the best credit deal

  Advice on getting a good best deal when borrowing money, including comparing credit products, costs involved, terms and conditions and checking whether you can afford the repayments

• Check your rights if you share accommodation

  Check who needs to pay rent and what happens when someone moves out. Check the difference between joint tenancies and sole tenancies

• Living together and civil partnership - legal differences

  Information for same-sex and opposite-sex couples on how the law treats civil partnerships and cohabiting couples, including financial matters, adoption, housing and inheritance

• Letter to complain to a trader about poor quality work agreed before 1 October 2015

  Letter to ask a contractor to fix a problem with building work, decorating or home improvements - if you gave the go-ahead before 1 October 2015

• Paying off a credit agreement early

  Find out if your credit agreement is covered by the Consumer Credit Act 1974 and how to pay it off early

• Letter to confirm the DWP has given you more time to send your PIP claim form

  Template letter you can use to confirm an extension to the deadline for returning your Personal Independence Payment (PIP) form

• Water shortages - restrictions to your supply

  When your water company can impose temporary hosepipe bans and drought orders during water shortages, for how long, and what your rights are when this happens

• Dealing with the financial affairs of someone who has died

  Information on the role of the executor or administrator in dealing with the estate of a deceased person

• Using storage heaters and immersion heaters correctly

  Check how to use electric storage heaters and immersion heaters. Make sure you’re using your heaters correctly

• If something you ordered hasn't arrived

  Check what to do if a parcel hasn't arrived and how to spot scam messages about it. Check your rights to a refund or another delivery and how to contact the seller