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• How to claim Housing Benefit

  How to claim Housing Benefit, including if you can backdate your claim. How to claim a Discretionary Housing Payment too

• Ask the council to check if your rented home needs repairs

  If you’ve reported repairs to your landlord and they haven’t done anything, find out if the council can help you get the work done

• Check how to fill in your claim form

  Detailed information on how to fill in your ‘How your disability affects you’ form, including advice for each question and tick box.

• Reporting a change while you're on ESA

  What changes of circumstance to tell the DWP about while you're getting ESA, how to contact the DWP about the changes

• Dividing up money and belongings when you separate

  If you and your partner separate, you need to decide how to divide your home and your pension. You also need to divide possessions and money in bank accounts

• If your mortgage lender takes you to court

  What to do if you get court papers, including how to fill in your defence form and what will happen at court

• Getting help with home improvements

  Check the types of grants and loans you can get to make improvements in your home - including the disabled facilities grant

• Make an informal discrimination complaint

  Decide the best way to make an informal discrimination complaint. Check what to say in your complaint to help you resolve the issue quickly

• Hire purchase and conditional sale

  Information about how hire purchase and conditional sale agreements work, the right to end a hire purchase agreement and what happens if the buyer is unable to pay

• How income, debts and belongings are assessed for a debt relief order

  Explains how an adviser assesses the value of your debts, income and belongings during the debt relief order application process