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• Check if you can increase your income

  Check you’re getting all the money you’re entitled to - including benefits, grants from charities and payments from government schemes

• If you're sending the form back late

  If you're late sending back the form you must still fill it in and send it as soon as you can. If you have a good reason the DWP might decide to accept

• Work out which debts to deal with first

  Check which of your debts are ‘priority debts’ that you should deal with first

• Carers: help and support

  Help and support available for carers including social care needs assessments and financial help

• 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

• 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

• Creditors are still contacting you - administration orders

  Explains why creditors may still contact you while an administration order is in place and what to do if a creditor is harassing you

• Loan sharks

  Information about illegal lending, how to check if a lender is properly licensed and what to do if you owe money to a loan shark