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If you're over 80 you can get your State Pension topped up to £101.55 a week in 2024 to 2025 - for men born before 6 April 1951 and women born before 6 April 1953
Apply for meals at home from your council or other local organisation
Getting a work reference from an employer either while in work or when applying for a new job – and what you can do if you think it's unfair.
Home Responsibilities Protection ran between 1978 and 2010 to help protect your State Pension - National Insurance credits, what you'll get, eligibility and applying.
Wage slips must show any deductions and explain them - not everyone has the right to a payslip
Use this form to claim Pension Credit by post if you cannot claim online by phone.
Direct Earnings Attachment (DEA) and deducting any money an employee owes the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) from their pay
A form for employers to fill in and give to employees who aren't entitled to Statutory Maternity Pay.
If you get help from social services, direct payments let you choose and buy the services you need yourself, instead of getting them from your council
Find out what ID and documents you'll need to bring to your Jobcentre Plus interview
Minimum wage rates for different types of paid employment - time work, output work, unmeasured work, salaried hours work.
Overtime law - what is overtime, overtime pay, employee rights, part-time workers and time off in lieu
Ending a relationship and agreeing on money and property, child arrangements (sometimes known as 'custody', 'residence' or 'contact') and child maintenance
This form can be used to support you to identify what help and changes are available to help you move into work or stay in a job.
Work out how much money you'll get when you retire and plan ahead - State Pension, Pension Credit, National Insurance
DNA testing can be used in child maintenance or inheritance disputes, or applications for contact with a child or for a child to settle in the UK
Employees working for one employer without a break, employments rights for continuous services, breaks that do not affect continuous service
Checks employers might need to run on job applicants, including right to work in the UK, Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS - formerly CRB) checks and health checks
Reasons for a support visit from the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) Visiting Team, what to expect and how to check if the visitor is genuine
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