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• Challenging a rent increase

  Find out if you can challenge your section 13 rent increase for free at a tribunal and check what evidence you need to send with your application

• If you're not offered housing after a homeless application

  Check how you can find somewhere to live and stay tonight, for example a night shelter or hostel. Check your options for finding long-term accommodation

• 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

• After you've been dismissed

  Help with moving on and finding a new job after being dismissed, including benefits, getting a reference, and explaining your dismissal to a new employer

• Applying for a JSA hardship payment

  Find out who can get a JSA hardship payment and how much you’ll get. Find out how to apply for a JSA hardship payment

• Check if your landlord can increase your rent

  Find out how to deal with a rent increase, find out how to negotiate to get a lower rent and check how you can challenge your rent increase

• Deciding what to do about housing discrimination

  Find out what you can do to solve your problem and get everything ready before you take action

• If you get a ‘section 8’ eviction notice

  Know when your landlord can give you a section 8 notice, check your section 8 notice is valid and find out what to do if it's not valid

• Complaints about banks and building societies

  How to make a complaint about your bank or building society and the standard of service

• Joint debts and belongings if your partner is bankrupt

  Explains what happens to any joint debts taken out with your partner, if they go bankrupt