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• Get help if you're being evicted

  Check what help you can get if you’re given a ‘section 21’ or ‘section 8’ eviction notice. Check if you can get money to help you find somewhere to live

• Preparing your finances for retirement

  When you can start getting your pension, checklist of things to do leading up to your retirement, getting help with Pension Wise, and what to do if you've lost track of a pension

• If you need a guarantor to start renting

  Check what it means to have a guarantor for your rent. Check what their responsibilities are and when the guarantee agreement ends

• 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

• Challenging a Universal Credit decision - mandatory reconsideration

  If you disagree with the decision about your Universal Credit claim, you can ask for ‘mandatory reconsideration’. Find out how to challenge the decision

• Rules debt management plan providers must follow

  Explains the rules, set by the Financial Conduct Authority, that all debt management plan providers must follow

• Do you need to pay for a debt management plan?

  Advantages and disadvantages of choosing a fee-charging debt management plan provider over on that offers a free service

• County court judgments and your credit rating - overview

  How to find out if a CCJ has been made against you and change or remove an entry in the Register of Judgments, Orders and Fines

• Q8 - getting around safely

  Help to fill in Q8: getting around safely for your ESA application. Find out what this means and how to correctly complete the question

• If you have a problem with a disability aid

  Check your rights if you've bought a disability aid and have a problem with it, including returns, refunds, repairs, replacements, and compensation