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• Check if you can sublet your home

  Check if you're allowed to sublet your home and how it might affect your income and benefits

• Check if you can apply for homeless help

  Find out if you can apply for homeless help - including what the council will look at to decide if you qualify for help.

• If the structure of the building you live in isn’t safe

  Check what to do if you think your building isn’t safe. You can also check who needs to pay for structural repair works if you’re a leaseholder.

• Looking after people

  Overview and content list for looking after people. Read our advice on help and support for carers and managing affairs for someone else.

• If your child is taken into care by your local council

  Where your child will live, how their needs will be met and what contact you can have with them while they’re in care.

• How to appeal against a Universal Credit decision at a tribunal

  How to appeal against a Universal Credit decision at an independent tribunal, including how to fill in the form and what to do if you've missed the deadline

• Making a will

  Information about making a will and how to change or end a will. How to protect your will against being challenged

• Check if your employer's dismissal process is unfair

  Make sure your employer has a fair dismissal process and follows the Acas code of practice - and know when to challenge them if they don't

• Check your housing status if you rent from a private landlord

  Check what type of tenancy or other housing status you have if you rent from a private landlord. The rules depend on the date your tenancy started.

• If there's flooding in your rented home

  Information on dealing with flooding if you're a tenant, including emergency relocation, paying the rent and temporary homelessness