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• 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.

• Check how bankruptcy affects your belongings

  Find out what you can keep when you’re bankrupt. You can usually keep the things you need to live - for example your clothes, furniture and cooking equipment

• Managing affairs for someone else

  Information on managing someone’s affairs including ordinary, lasting and enduring power of attorney, and mental capacity

• Using mediation to help you separate

  Mediation is a cost-effective way of sorting any differences you have with your ex-partner when you separate. Find out more about mediation

• Challenging a working or child tax credits decision - mandatory reconsideration

  How to challenge a tax credits decision with HMRC and applying for mandatory reconsideration

• How Universal Credit is paid

  Find out how Universal Credit is paid. You'll usually get a single payment every month paid directly into your bank, building society or credit union account

• Check if you're eligible for PIP

  Conditions you have to meet to get Personal Independence Payment (PIP), a benefit that helps with extra costs if you're ill, have a disability or mental health issues

• Moving from DLA to PIP

  Find out if you'll have to move from Disability Living Allowance (DLA) to Personal Independence Allowance (PIP) and how to do

• How to read your gas or electricity meter

  Your supplier needs readings from your gas or electricity meter to work out your bills. Find out how to read different types of gas and electricity meters.

• If you're worried about someone's gambling

  Get help to deal with someone else's gambling - including emotional support and advice on how to protect your money and belongings