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• What you can do with your pension pot

  What options you have for accessing the money in you personal or workplace pension pot

• Check if you can increase your income

  Check you’re getting all the money you’re entitled to - including benefits, grants from charities and the Household Support Fund scheme.

• If you can't take your holiday because you're ill

  Find out what you can do if you’re sick before on on a holiday, if you can postpone your holiday and when you can take it, including in the following year

• Check if a change affects your Housing Benefit

  Find out what changes of circumstances to tell your local council so you get the right amount of Housing Benefit.

• 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.

• Moving to Universal Credit if you've got a migration notice

  You’ll have to move to Universal Credit when you get a letter from the DWP - this is a 'migration notice'. Your existing benefit will stop. Claim Universal Credit to keep getting financial support.

• Check what an IVA is

  Find out how an individual voluntary arrangement (IVA) works and the type of debts you can include

• Get a hardship payment if you've been sanctioned

  If you've been sanctioned, you might be able to get some emergency money to help you cover household expenses. This is called a hardship payment