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• Get help with costs if you have a child or you’re pregnant

  Check what help you can get with the cost of living. This might include extra benefits and grants, free childcare, help with school costs and the Healthy Start scheme

• Critical illness insurance

  Information on critical illness insurance, what it covers, factors to consider before taking out critical illness insurance and how to buy an insurance policy

• Prepare for a power cut

  Check how to prepare for a planned power cut caused by engineering work or an unplanned power cut which could be caused by a storm or severe weather

• If your Universal Credit is reduced or stopped

  Find out why your Universal Credit payment might be reduced or stopped, and advice on what you can do about it. You'll be notified if your payment changes

• 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

• Changing your claimant commitment

  Find out how to get your Universal Credit claimant commitment changed if your work coach asks you to do too much work-related activity as part of your claim

• Work out which debts to deal with first

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

• Preparing for your ESA medical assessment

  What will happen at the assessment, what to take with you, how to answer questions from the healthcare professional, what will happen next