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• Getting paid less than minimum wage or living wage

  Check if you're entitled to the minimum wage or living wage, make sure you're getting it, and what to do if you're

• Taking action over credit brokers

  Explains how to get your money back from a credit broker, if they have taken payment from you without your permission.

• Breastfeeding

  Information on the right to breastfeed a child up to the age of two in a public place and how to deal with someone trying to prevent breastfeeding.

• Plastic cards

  Introductory information about the various types of plastic cards available, covering credit cards, store cards and charge cards, and prepayment cards.

• Fostering

  Information for carers and children in private and local authority foster arrangements including rights and available allowances for carers

• Paying off a credit agreement early

  Find out if your credit agreement is covered by the Consumer Credit Act 1974 and how to pay it off early.

• Before you claim Pension Credit

  Overview and content list for before you claim pension credit. Get information and check if you can get pension credit and how to claim.

• Get a Universal Credit advance payment

  How to get an advance payment of Universal Credit if you don't have enough money to get by while you're waiting for your first Universal Credit payment.

• Getting a Universal Credit budgeting advance

  Find out how to get a Universal Credit budgeting advance, a loan for emergency and one-off expenses. Who’s eligible, how much you'll get and how to apply.

• Before you apply for Universal Credit

  Information for before you apply for Universal Credit. Find out more about what Universal Credit is, check if you're eligible and how it's paid.