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• How to prepare for flooding

  Advice and information about how to prepare for possible floods. Advice includes signing up for flood alerts and preparing an emergency kit and flood plan

• Housing

  Get advice on renting, council tax, homelessness and problems where you live.

• 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.

• Plastic cards

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

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.