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• How to claim Housing Benefit

  How to claim Housing Benefit, including if you can backdate your claim. How to claim a Discretionary Housing Payment too

• Adapting common parts for your disability

  If you're disabled, you can make certain adaptations to the common parts of your building. This page explains who can get adaptations to common parts, what issues you need to consider and how to formally get the agreement of the owners

• Scottish Child Payment

  Find out about the Scottish Child Payment, a Scottish benefit for parents and carers on low incomes who have a child under 16

• Challenge your dismissal

  How to challenge your dismissal by appealing to your employer or making an unfair dismissal claim to an employment tribunal

• The scheme of assistance for house repairs and adaptations

  Find out what help local authorities can provide for repairs and improvements to privately owned houses and adaptations for disabled people

• 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

• Children who are looked after by the local authority

  A definition of children in need and information on the services which local authorities must provide

• Check if you can add income-based JSA to your claim

  If you're already getting contribution-based JSA, find out if you can get income-based JSA too

• Young people and housing

  Information about the rights of children and young people who are homeless, organisations that can help and information on renting and buying accommodation

• Appealing an ESA decision

  Find out how to appeal an ESA decision. Before you can appeal a decision made by the DWP, you might need to ask for a mandatory reconsideration