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• Check your rights as a lodger

  Find out what rights you have if you're a lodger. You can also check what support you can get if you need help with housing

• Understanding your tenancy agreement

  Check what terms can be in your tenancy agreement. Check documents your landlord needs to give you and what counts as an unfair agreement

• Problems with buying and selling a home

  Check the main problems you might have when buying or selling a home. Check how to deal with issues with estate agents, surveyors, valuers, buyers and sellers

• 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

• Buying a more energy efficient appliance

  Work out if you’ll save money by buying a more energy efficient appliance and check how to read an appliance’s energy label

• Dealing with rent arrears

  Check you’re responsible for paying rent arrears, find a way of affordably repaying them and make sure you're getting all the help you're entitled

• How lenders decide whether to give you credit

  Information on credit scoring, credit rating, credit reference agencies and how they decide whether or not to give you credit

• How to claim bereavement benefits

  Find out how to claim Bereavement Support Payment. For deaths before April 2017, check if you can get Widowed Parents Allowance

• If you're working too many hours

  Check how many hours your employer can ask you to work and if you have to do overtime. Check how you can ask to reduce your hours

• Check how to make a formal complaint about discrimination

  Check what to say in your formal complaint to show that discrimination happened. You can also find out what to do if you’re not happy with the response you get