Wages

• See: Pay

Wales

• Government in Wales

Warm Home Discount Scheme

• Warm Home Discount Scheme for households receiving the guarantee element of pension credit

Waste disposal

• Licensing of waste disposal sites

Water charges

• Arrears
• Backdated water bills
• Bills - who is responsible for paying the bill
• Changing to a water meter
• Complaining about your water bill
• Help with paying water bills
• Negotiating with your water company to pay arrears
• Paying for water with a meter
• Paying for water without a meter
• Saving money on water bills
• Tenants - landlord is not paying the water bill
• Tenants - payments and problems
• Unmeasured charges
• Waterdirect - third party deductions from benefits to pay water bills
• Watersure scheme - help with water bills if you get certain benefits and have three or more children or have certain medical conditions

Waterdirect

• Third party deductions from benefits to pay water bills

Water meters

• Changing to a water meter
• Paying for water with a meter
• Universal metering

Water Services Regulatory Authority (Ofwat)

• Complaining about a water company
• Regulating body for water and sewerage industry

Water supply

• Broken appointments - claiming compensation
• Claiming compensation if a water company does not meet the guaranteed standards
• Complaining about your water supply
• Damaged or burst pipes - who is responsible for repair
• Disconnection for arrears
• Guaranteed Standards for water companies
• Hosepipe bans due to water shortages
• Interruptions to supply and compensation
• Leaks and who is responsible for fixing them
• Moving home - what you need to do
• Restrictions to supply due to water shortages
• Rights of water companies to enter private property
• Water quality - complaints
• Water saving in the garden - top tips
• Water saving in the home - top tips

Watersure

• Watersure scheme - help with water bills if you get certain benefits and have three or more children or have certain medical conditions

Weapons

• Firearms licences
• Police powers to search for weapons
• Schools - weapons in schools

Weddings

• Anniversaries - greetings from the Queen
• Venues - where a marriage can take place

Weights and measures

• Food and drink

Welsh language

• Welsh language

Wheelchairs

• NHS provision and private purchase
• Taxis and wheelchair accessibility

Wheel-clamping

• Public or private land - wheel-clamping
• Your car is towed away or clamped

Whistleblowing

• Agency workers - employer stops giving you work
• Protection for workers

Widows/Widowers

• Bereavement benefits
• Bereavement benefits (frequently asked questions)
• Death - what to do after a death
• Income tax for people aged 65 or over
• Reduced national insurance contributions for widows
• Retirement pensions
• War widow's/widower's pension

Wills

• General information
• Looking for copies of a will when someone dies
• What to do after a death

Wind turbines

• Generating your own electricity

Winter fuel payment

• Winter fuel payment
• See also: Cold weather payments

Witnesses

• Abroad - witness of a crime abroad
• Car accidents - insurance claims
• Expert witnesses in consumer complaints
• Parking ticket - setting aside a court order and witness statement
• Young people as witnesses

Women's organisations

• Domestic violence - physical or emotional abuse in a relationship

Work

• See: Employment

Work Experience Programme

• Work Experience Programme

Work for your benefits schemes

• Employment Skills and Enterprise Scheme
• Mandatory Work Activity Scheme

Working hours

• Health and safety - working hours
• Key time contracts
• Young people
• Zero contracts

Working tax credit

• Appeals
• Benefit cap - exemption
• Civil penalty for causing an overpayment
• Complaints about poor service
• Fraud
• Frequently asked questions about tax credits
• Migrant workers
• Overpayments
• Payment into bank accounts
• Working tax credit - general

Workplace pensions

• See: Personal pensions

Work-related requirements

• Which requirements do you have to meet - overview
• Work-related groups - which groups you should be in
• Work-related requirements - overview

Wreck

• Goods found in the sea or on the sea shore

Write off

• Car accident - your car is a write off
• Secondhand car - the car you bought is an insurance write off

Wrongful dismissal

• See: Dismissal