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• Getting your tenancy deposit back if you rent privately

  Find out how to get your deposit back from your landlord when your tenancy ends and whether your landlord can keep your money to pay for damage or breakages

• Check your housing status if you rent from a private landlord

  Check what type of tenancy or other housing status you have if you rent from a private landlord. The rules depend on the date your tenancy started.

• Problems with selling your home - delayed completion and lease options contracts

  Information about 'exchange with delayed completion' and 'lease options' contracts, covering what they are, the risks involved and other options that may be available to people trying to sell their home

• Repossession by your landlord's mortgage lender

  Check what happens if your landlord hasn't paid their mortgage. Check if you'll be evicted or if you have the right to stay

• Renting privately

  Renting privately If you get a ‘section 21’ eviction notice If you get a ‘section 8’ eviction notice If you're being evicted because you asked for repairs Repossession by your landlord's mortgage lender

• If you owe child maintenance

  Find out what the CMS can do if you don't pay child maintenance and how they can recover payments

• After your possession hearing

  Check what the outcome of your court hearing means, and whether you can change a possession order

• Renting with other people

  Renting with other people Check your rights if you share accommodation

• 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

• Applying for a JSA hardship payment

  Find out who can get a JSA hardship payment and how much you’ll get. Find out how to apply for a JSA hardship payment