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• Check if you’re allowed an extra bedroom for Housing Benefit

  Find out if you can get Housing Benefit for another room in your council home because you have a disability or someone is away from home.

• The council says you've had a Housing Benefit overpayment

  Check if you’ve actually been overpaid Housing Benefit and find out how to challenge a overpayment.

• You think you're being accused of benefit fraud

  What to do if you’re worried you’re being investigated for benefit fraud.

• Check if a room counts as an extra bedroom for Housing Benefit

  Find out how the council decide if you have a spare room in your council home, and when they can reduce your Housing Benefit - sometimes called the ‘bedroom tax’.

• How an extra bedroom affects your Housing Benefit

  Find out how an extra bedroom affects your housing benefit. Check if your room counts as an extra room and if you're allowed an extra bedroom.

• Jobseeker's Allowance (JSA)

  Check if you can get 'new style' JSA - and how much you could get - while you look for a full-time job. If your JSA has stopped or been reduced, find out how to challenge the decision

• Check what you have to do in the ESA work-related activity group

  Find out what you need to do if you’re in the work-related activity group

• Resigning from your job

  Check your options before you decide to resign. Check the best way to resign

• If you’ve been invited to an interview under caution for benefit fraud

  What to do if you’re asked to an interview under caution because you’re being investigated for benefit fraud.

• Check how much Housing Benefit you can get

  Find out how much housing benefit you can get. You might be able to get all your rent paid or just some of it depending on your circumstances.