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• Stopping bailiffs if you don't owe the debt

  Check how to stop bailiffs visiting you if you don’t owe a debt, find out how to prove you don’t owe the debt and how to complain if the bailiffs still say you owe the money

• Check if your landlord has to protect your deposit

  Check if your landlord needs to put your tenancy deposit into a deposit protection scheme. Check what you can do if they don’t

• 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

• Get help with the cost of renting privately

  Check if you can get help to pay your rent or council tax. Check if you can get Universal Credit for housing costs or a council tax reduction

• 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

• Check the terms of your employment contract

  Check if you’ve got a written statement from your employer and what other documents to look

• 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

• Getting PIP after you’ve reached State Pension age

  Check if you can claim Personal Independence Payment (PIP) after State Pension age, and the rules if your condition gets worse

• Work you can do while getting ESA

  While you’re getting Employment Support Allowance (ESA) you might be able to do some types of work. Check what work you can do while you’re getting ESA

• 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