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• Action your creditor can take

  Overview and content list for action your creditor can take. Find out what action your creditor can take, including what to do If you're being taken to court

• WaterSure scheme – help with paying water bills

  Watersure is a scheme to help save money with your water bill, if you get certain benefits and you have three or more children under 19 or someone in your house has a medical condition that means more water gets used

• Claiming compensation from water companies

  How to claim compensation from a water company. Read this to find out more about the standards water companies must stick to and when you can claim

• Dispute a mobile, phone, internet or TV bill

  Challenge a bill if you’ve been charged too much for your phone, internet or TV. Your provider might have got your bill wrong or your bill could be high because of fraud

• Check your personal alarm will work after the landline switch off

  Check how the switch to digital landlines might affect your telecare and other alarms. Check what to do to avoid problems when you switch

• Who is responsible for repairing drains and sewers

  The difference between drains, lateral drains and sewers and who is responsible for repairing them, and asking a water company to adopt a private or unadopted sewer

• Getting married

  Information on who can get married, where marriages can take place, civil and religious services, marriages by proxy, bigamous marriages, polygamous marriages, forced marriages and second marriages

• Taking action about discrimination

  Overview and content list for taking action about discrimination. Get help understanding what you can do about discrimination and how to take legal action

• You are taken to court for rent arrears

  Information about the procedure a landlord must follow in order to take a tenant to court for rent arrears, special rules for social housing landlords, notice periods, what happens and a court hearing and the type of orders a judge can make

• Parental bereavement pay - what you're entitled to and how to get it

  Find out if you're entitled to parental bereavement pay, and how to arrange it with your employer