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• Check if you’re protected from disability discrimination

  Understand how the Equality Act defines disability. The Equality Act is the law that stops employers, businesses and providers discriminating against you

• Income protection insurance

  Information on income protection insurance, factors to consider before taking out income protection insurance and how to work out the level of cover you need

• If you’re struggling to pay your heat network bills

  Find out what to do if you're having problems paying heat network bills or you owe money. Heat networks are sometimes called communal heating or district heating

• How to apply for Universal Credit

  Find out how to apply for Universal Credit online. Find out more about the questions you need to answer, your ‘to-do list’ and the next steps

• How volunteering affects your benefits - overview

  Check the rules about volunteering for the benefit you claim to make sure your benefits aren't affected. Read our advice about volunteering while on benefits

• Your right not to be tortured or treated in an inhuman way

  Explains how article 3 of the Human Rights Act 1998 protects you from torture or inhuman treatment, which causes you severe mental or physical suffering

• If you struggle to get around and you got PIP before 28 June 2018

  The DWP has reviewed PIP claims for people with mental health conditions. Find out if you should have got more PIP.

• Check what compensation you can get for unfair dismissal

  Find out how to work out your basic and compensatory awards, when your compensation could be increased or decreased, if you need to repay any welfare benefits

• Getting travel insurance

  What you need to think about before you take out a travel insurance policy

• Complaining about your water company

  The complaints process for complaining about your water bill or supply, or the standard of service you have received from your water company in the first instance and what to do if you are not happy with what the water company has said