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Your rights if your landlord is intimidating you, or interfering with services, in order to get you to move out.
Understand what makes a contract legally binding, and if verbal agreements, or those made over text or email are legally enforceable. This guide will also explain terms and conditions and statutory rights, and what you should do when a contract is broken.
The information in this guide applies to England and Wales.
Payments available from the social fund, including grants and loans for specific life incidents.
Get guidance on what you should do - whether you got nothing, a low award, or an award of just mobility or care.
Whether or not you are entitled to PIP is based on what help you need with very specific things because of your illness or disability, and any treatment.
The application process is tricky and lots of people who should get the benefit find they are turned down to start with or given a lower award. If this happens to you, ask for a mandatory reconsideration. All unfair decisions should be challenged.
If they don’t change the decision at the first stage, you can ask for an appeal.
90% of people who use our help to ask for a mandatory reconsideration and/or appeal successfully get the decision changed. It is worth the effort!
This information applies in England, Wales, and Scotland. It will also be helpful for claimants in Northern Ireland where the rules are the same but the relevant government departments and forms are different.
Whether or not your child is entitled to DLA is based on what help they need with very specific things because of their illness, disability, or difference that another child of the same age would not.
The application process is tricky and lots of parents and carers whose children who should get the benefit find they are turned down to start with or given a lower award. If this happens to you, ask for a mandatory reconsideration. All unfair decisions should be challenged.
If they don’t change the decision at the first stage, ask for an appeal.
90% of people who used our guides or tools had the decisions changed in their favour either at the mandatory reconsideration stage or tribunal appeal. It is worth the effort!
Understand what you need to do to get a divorce or end a civil partnership, and how to do it if you do not have a lawyer. Get to grips with the new 'no-fault' divorce law and how you can apply for a divorce online through the online court. Divorce is one of the most stressful, confusing and painful times people go through - this guide has everything you need to find your way through the maze.
This guide is about the law in England and Wales only.
Violence and abuse that happens in family situations, particularly between couples. Your rights to protection from domestic violence and abuse.
Help to get and stay in the housing you are entitled to, including challenging unfair decisions
The rights of travelling people. Includes your rights to stop legally, park and live in a camp, and how to access services such as healthcare and education.
