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Advice

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
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poverty

White goods grant: Where to get help replacing essentials

Support for mortgage interest: Where to get help
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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?

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
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Charity

These charities collect furniture for free to help those in need

Can you get a mortgage on benefits?
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housing

Can you get a mortgage on benefits?

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

What is a sitting tenant?
renting

What is a sitting tenant?

Habitual residence test: How to get help with housing
housing

Habitual residence test: How to get help with housing

What happens at a possession hearing?
eviction

What happens at a possession hearing?

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What are service charges? Everything you need to know
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renting

What are service charges? Everything you need to know

What is a restrictive covenant?
housing

What is a restrictive covenant?

Section 21 eviction notice: What you should know
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renting

Section 21 eviction notice: What you should know

Facing eviction? Everything you need to know
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renting

Facing eviction? Everything you need to know