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• 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

• Getting a Universal Credit budgeting advance

  Find out how to get a Universal Credit budgeting advance, a loan for emergency and one-off expenses. Who’s eligible, how much you'll get and how to apply

• Adding a debt to your administration order

  Explains how a debt can be added to an administration order, which was accidentally missed off the original application

• Get help with costs if you have a child or you’re pregnant

  Check what help you can get with the cost of living. This might include extra benefits and grants, free childcare, help with school costs and the Healthy Start scheme

• Check how much Universal Credit you'll get

  Work out how much Universal Credit you’ll get each month, including which elements you’re entitled to and how your income and savings affect your payment

• Challenging what the CMS says you should get

  Find out how to ask the CMS for a review or a variation, for example if your circumstances have changed.

• Getting benefits if you got ill or were injured at work

  Check if you can claim Industrial Injuries Disablement Benefit and how to deal with problems

• Can you get bankruptcy cancelled?

  Find out when you can apply to have a bankruptcy cancelled (annulled) and how to do