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• Check if a change affects your SMI

  Find out if a change you report about your benefits also affects your support for mortgage interest (SMI).

• Extra money and help if you get Universal Credit

  Find out about extra money and help you can get because you receive Universal Credit. You can also check what other benefits and support you can apply for.

• Change of circumstances while you’re getting DLA

  You need to tell the DWP as soon as possible if your child’s condition changes - this can affect how much DLA you get

• Check if you should move to Universal Credit from other benefits

  Your benefit may stop if your situation has changed. Check if you should move to Universal Credit instead. Find out how to move and check if you'll be better off.

• Getting benefits if you’ve recently moved to the UK

  Check how to show you’re habitually resident, pass the ‘past presence test’ or pass the ‘3-month living in test

• Paying back a working or child tax credits overpayment

  Change how quickly you repay a tax credits overpayment, and find out about other ways to pay

• Getting visas for your partner and children to live in the UK

  Check who can apply for partner and child visas, including the rules about your income.

• Parental bereavement leave - what you're entitled to and how to get it

  Your right to take up to 2 weeks off work if your child dies, and how to arrange it with your employer.

• 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 child is taken into care by your local council

  Where your child will live, how their needs will be met and what contact you can have with them while they’re in care.