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• Income Support - how much you can get

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

• How to claim Child Benefit

  Check how to claim Child Benefit and what documents you’ll need. Find out how and when you’ll get paid

• Q2 - standing and sitting

  Help to fill in Q2: standing and sitting for your ESA application. Find out what this means and how to correctly complete the question

• Get help from the Witness Service

  Get help from the Witness Service if you’ve witnessed or been a victim of a crime. Find out what help you can get and how to get in touch

• Q11 - learning how to do tasks

  Help to fill in Q11: learning how to do tasks for your ESA application. Find out what this means and how to correctly complete the question

• Withholding rent because repairs haven't been done

  The procedure that social housing tenants must follow if you decide to use your rent to pay for repairs and the risks of withholding rent when the landlord has not carried out repairs

• If you have a court hearing by phone or video call

  Check how to prepare if a court or tribunal offers you a remote hearing

• 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