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• How volunteering affects your benefits - overview

  Check the rules about volunteering for the benefit you claim to make sure your benefits aren't affected. Read our advice about volunteering while on benefits.

• Talking to your employer about a problem

  Get help and advice on how you can deal with a problem at work informally. You might be able to sort out the problem informally by talking to your employer.

• If you've overstayed your visa or leave

  If you’ve overstayed your visa or leave, you have 90 days to leave the country. You can't usually extend your visa or leave once you've overstayed

• Your energy supplier has put its prices up

  When your supplier is allowed to raise their prices, notice they should give you, what to do to avoid price rises

• Switching energy supplier or tariff if you’re renting

  Find out if you can switch supplier and whether you need to ask your landlord

• Dealing with disciplinary action at work

  Find out what to do if your employer takes disciplinary action against you

• If you report child abuse to the police

  The responsibilities of the police and their powers to take action if they're involved in investigating a case of child abuse

• After you get refugee status

  Finding new housing and applying for benefits after you get refugee status

• Your child arrangements aren't working

  Getting help and going to court if your child arrangements aren't working

• Check if you can get DLA for your child

  DLA isn’t just for children with physical disabilities - it’s also for behavioural and mental health conditions as well as learning disabilities and developmental delay