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• Debt management plans

  Overview and content list for debt management plans. Read our advice about getting a debt management plan, while one is in place and making a complaint

• Check if a change affects your JSA

  What to do if you have a change of circumstances while getting JSA. How to report changes to your work, income, family, health or immigration status

• Check if a change affects your Income Support

  Find out what changes of circumstances you have to report to make sure you get the right amount of Income Support

• Negotiating your debt with bailiffs

  Find out how you can negotiate your debt with bailiffs - including working out your what you can afford and making a payment arrangement

• Get housing help if you’re leaving or have left the armed forces

  Check what housing help you can get if you’re leaving the armed forces or you’re a veteran. Check which organisations can offer support

• How the DWP makes a decision on PIP claims

  How Personal Independence Payment (PIP) claims are assessed by the Department for Work and Pensions, and information on the descriptors and scoring used.

• If you have to go to a disciplinary meeting

  Find out what a disciplinary meeting is, why your employer has asked you to go to one, how to prepare, what will happen and what the possible outcomes

• How to claim PIP

  How to claim Personal Independence Payment (PIP) and the basic information you'll need to have to hand when you start your claim.

• Check if your problem at work is discrimination

  Find out if your unfair treatment counts as illegal discrimination under the Equality Act

• Credit rating - impact of debt relief order

  Explains that a debt relief order must be noted in your credit reference file and how it affects your credit rating, making it hard to get credit in future