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• Complaining about a legal practitioner

  Find out how to make a complaint about a solicitor, advocate, conveyancer or paralegal

• 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

• Maternity pay - how to get it

  What you need to do to get statutory or contractual maternity pay from your employer

• Claiming constructive dismissal

  Find out what you should think about before deciding to resign and claim constructive dismissal

• Complaining about councillors and devolved public bodies

  Find out how to make a complaint about the misconduct of councillors and members of devolved public bodies

• Challenging an Attendance Allowance decision - mandatory reconsideration

  You can challenge your Attendance Allowance decision if you think the decision is wrong. Read our guidance and tips on asking for mandatory reconsideration

• Trust deeds in Scotland

  Information on what a trust deed is and when it might be an option for helping with debt problems. Also covers the advantages and disadvantages of a trust deed and explains the difference between a 'protected' or 'not protected' trust deed

• 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

• Appealing a Housing Benefit decision at a tribunal

  How to appeal if your local council won’t change a decision about your Housing Benefit

• How to appeal against a Universal Credit decision at a tribunal

  How to appeal against a Universal Credit decision at an independent tribunal, including how to fill in the form and what to do if you've missed the deadline