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• Check what benefits you can get

  Get a quick idea of the benefits you can claim, including disability benefits and links to benefit calculators

• Ending a joint hire purchase or a conditional sale agreement - letter

  Letter to end a joint hire purchase or conditional sale agreement. You might need to do this if you can't afford the payments any more.

• Getting tax advice

  Check where you can get help with a tax problem. If you need help with tax, you can get advice from tax charities, TaxAid and Tax Help for Older People

• Rent arrears and other debts in student housing

  Information on what can happen if debts such as rent arrears are not paid to a student housing provider

• Challenging a Universal Credit decision - mandatory reconsideration

  If you disagree with the decision about your Universal Credit claim, you can ask for ‘mandatory reconsideration’. Find out how to challenge the decision

• Get help with a housing discrimination problem

  Where to get help if you're being discriminated against by your landlord, a letting agent or someone else involved in your housing

• Young people and family

  Find out about family matters affecting children and young people, including information on adoption, local authority care, wills and inheritance and the minimum age for getting married or registering a civil partnership

• Check if you’re allowed an extra bedroom for Housing Benefit

  Find out if you can get Housing Benefit for another room in your council home because you have a disability or someone is away from home

• NHS charges for people from abroad

  Information on charges for NHS treatment for people from abroad including who is entitled to receive free NHS treatment and which treatment is always free

• Loan sharks

  Information about illegal lending, how to check if a lender is properly licensed and what to do if you owe money to a loan shark