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Benefits

🔸Check what benefits you can get

🔸Benefits to claim if you’re sick or disabled

🔸Personal Independence Payment

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More about benefits

Employment

🔸Check your employment status

🔸Your maternity and parental rights

🔸Talking to your employer about a problem

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More about employment

Housing

🔸Understanding your tenancy agreement

🔸If you get a ‘section 21’ eviction notice

🔸Challenging a rent increase

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More about housing

We recommend you take a look at our website to see if you can resolve your problem, but we’re here to support you if our website can’t help you.

Family

🔸What to do when you separate

🔸Domestic Abuse- getting help

🔸What child maintenance arrangement is right for you

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More about family

Legal

🔸Finding free or affordable legal help

🔸When to appeal a parking ticket

🔸Making a small claim

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More about legal

Immigration

🔸How changes to immigration rules might affect you

🔸Becoming a British citizen

🔸After you get refugee status

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More about immigration

Consumer

🔸Report a scam

🔸Something you ordered hasn't arrived

🔸Contact the consumer service

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More about consumer

We recommend you take a look at our website to see if you can resolve your problem, but we’re here to support you if our website can’t help you.

Debt and Money

🔸Making a plan to pay your debts

🔸Top tips for borrowing

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More about debt

Universal Credit

🔸Moving to UC if you've got a migration notice

🔸What to do if you've been sanctioned

🔸Contact us about a Universal Credit application

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More about Universal Credit

Energy

🔸Make your home more energy efficient

🔸If you think you’ve been charged too much

🔸Contacting your energy supplier about a problem

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More about energy

We recommend you take a look at our website to see if you can resolve your problem, but we’re here to support you if our website can’t help you.

Helpful Links

Wigan Council

Trussell - Ending hunger together

Macmillan Cancer Support

Dias - On your side

Age UK

Acas - Working for everyone

TaxAid

Shelter

Department for Work and Pensions

Action Fraud - National Fraud and Cyber Crime Reporting Centre