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Advice

How to help a homeless person on the street in cold weather
Nicholas, in Liverpool, is wearing a grey beanie and coat with lots of layers under it
Homelessness

How to help a homeless person on the street in cold weather

ESA benefit: Everything you need to know
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benefits

ESA benefit: Everything you need to know

Child tax credit: Do you qualify?
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benefits

Child tax credit: Do you qualify?

Help with funeral costs: Know your options
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Funeral poverty

Help with funeral costs: Know your options

White goods grant: Where to get help replacing essentials
a crouching woman watches while a toddler pushes clothes into an open washing machine
poverty

White goods grant: Where to get help replacing essentials

Support for mortgage interest: Where to get help
a sold sign outside a red-brick building
Housing

Support for mortgage interest: Where to get help

Here's when pensioners will get the winter fuel payment in 2024
pensioner
Benefits

Here's when pensioners will get the winter fuel payment in 2024

Warm home discount: Am I eligible and how can I apply?
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Cost of living crisis

Warm home discount: Am I eligible and how can I apply?

What benefits can I claim?
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Benefits

What benefits can I claim?

Volunteering on Christmas Day: How you can get involved
a man chops vegetables on a table behind an older man
Christmas

Volunteering on Christmas Day: How you can get involved

Here's what to do if you see a homeless person
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Homelessness

Here's what to do if you see a homeless person

Housing benefit: How to claim and what to expect
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Housing benefits

Housing benefit: How to claim and what to expect

Here's how to donate to a food bank near you this winter
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Food banks

Here's how to donate to a food bank near you this winter

What to do about mould and damp in a rented property
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Housing

What to do about mould and damp in a rented property

These charities collect furniture for free to help those in need
a bare mattress pushed against a window in a dark room
Charity

These charities collect furniture for free to help those in need

How to donate toys and charity Christmas gifts to children
Charity Christmas gifts
Christmas

How to donate toys and charity Christmas gifts to children

Advertising helps fund Big Issue’s mission to end poverty
Can you get a mortgage on benefits?
a person's hands are seen pasting a 'sold' sticker over a 'for sale' sign outside a house
housing

Can you get a mortgage on benefits?

What is a warm bank? The places you can go to get warm this winter
Image of woman getting warm by a fire
Cost of living crisis

What is a warm bank? The places you can go to get warm this winter

Lodger rights: Everything you need to know
lodger rights
renting

Lodger rights: Everything you need to know

Getting a lodger: How to get started
housing

Getting a lodger: How to get started