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• Get a Universal Credit advance payment

  How to get an advance payment of Universal Credit if you don't have enough money to get by while you're waiting for your first Universal Credit payment

• Stopping bailiffs at your door

  Check how to stop bailiffs coming into your home and what to do if they break the rules

• Check what tips and service charges you're entitled to

  From 1 October 2024, employers must pass on all tips to their workers. Check what the new Tipping Act means for you

• Making a plan to pay your debts

  Work out what you can afford and make a plan for paying debts like credit cards, store cards and payday loans

• Reducing your monthly mortgage payments

  Check how to cut down your mortgage costs, including how to reduce your monthly payments and switch mortgage lender

• Check what bailiffs can take

  Check what bailiffs can take and stop them taking things they shouldn’t

• Income Support - how much you can get

  Find out how much Income Support you could get, including additional payments for housing costs

• 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

• Payday loans - making a complaint

  How to complain to a payday loan lender, the Financial Ombudsman Service or a trade association about a payday lender that has not followed the Good Practice Customer Charter and the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) rules

• 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