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• 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

• Council tax

  Council tax Council Tax Business rates

• Ending a relationship when you're living together

  Information on financial arrangements, children and housing rights when a living-together relationship ends, including process of family mediation

• Early learning and childcare

  Find out what childcare and education your child can get from birth to starting school - called early learning and childcare. Check if you can get help with costs.

• Child abuse

  A description of what constitutes child abuse, how to report it and what legal measures may be taken to protect the child.

• Living together, marriage and civil partnerships - legal differences

  Legal differences between living together, marriage and civil partnerships in Scotland. Learn what rights each gives you in areas including money, benefits, debts, children, housing and inheritance

• Universal Credit payments if you're self-employed

  Find out how your self-employed Universal Credit payments work, including how the DWP calculates your payments based on your income floor.

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

  Find out if you're entitled to parental bereavement pay, and how to arrange it with your employer