A to Z  - In N. Ireland

Capital (assets which could provide you with an income)

• Housing benefit

• Income support

• Income tax on income from capital

• Jobseeker's allowance

• Pension credit

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Care homes

• Care homes

• Community care services

• Television licences - reduced fees

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Care orders

• Children in local authority care

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Carers

• Assessments for carers

• Carer's allowance

• Time off work to care for dependents

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Carer's allowance

• Carer's allowance

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Cars

• Disabled people

• Driving tests

• Motor trade organisations

• Problems when buying secondhand vehicles

• Traffic accidents

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Central heating

See: Heating

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Charities

• Complaints about fundraising

• Fundraising Standards Board

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Child benefit

• Child benefit

See also: Benefits

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Childcare

• Childcare tax credit

• Childcare vouchers

• Help with costs

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Children

• Benefits for children

• Birth certificates

• Children in local authority care

• Children in need - local authority services

• Cohabitation breakdown and children

• Death of a child and claiming benefits

• Education organisations

• Employment

• Home school agreements

• Marriage breakdown and children

• Parental responsibility

• Passports

• Rights

See also: Young people

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Child support

• Child support

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Child tax credit

• Appeals

• Child tax credit

• Complaints about poor service

• Free school meals

• Payment into bank accounts

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Child Trust Fund

• Child Trust Fund

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Christmas

• Christmas day working in shops

• Ways of saving for Christmas

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Christmas bonus

• People aged 60 or over

• Widows and widowers

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Cigarettes

• Young people

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Cinema

See: Films

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Civil partnership

• Bereavement benefits

• Married couple's tax allowance for people aged 70 or over

• Passports

• Paternity leave

• Retirement pension

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Civil rights

• Frequently asked questions about civil rights

See also: Human rights

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Claims assessors

• Personal injuries compensation

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Clothing

• Budgeting loans for clothing

• School uniforms and clothing grants

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Cohabitation

See: Living together

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Cold weather payments

• Appeals

• Cold weather payments from the social fund

See also: Winter fuel payments

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Commonhold

• Commonhold property

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Communications

• Frequently asked questions about communications

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Community care

• Assessment of needs

• Charging for services

• Direct payments

• Entitlement to services

• Provision of services

• Support for older people to stay in their own home

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Community care grants

• Payments from the social fund

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Compensation

• Airlines - cancellations, overbookings and delays

• Criminal injuries compensation

• Personal injuries compensation

• Poor social security benefits service

• Small claims procedure

• Taxation of compensation payments

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Constructive dismissal

See: Dismissal

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Consumers

• Charities - complaints about fundraising

• Disability discrimination

• European consumer centres

• Frequently asked questions about consumer affairs

• Fundraising Standards Board - complaints about charities

• Internet auction sites

• Organisations which can help with consumer complaints

• Problems with credit

• Problems with goods

• Problems with services

• Scams - schemes designed to con money from people

• Small claims

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Contact

• Cohabitation breakdown - contact with children

• Contact with children in care

• Marriage breakdown - contact with children

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Contraception

• Young people

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Contracts of employment

• Basic rights at work

• Employment contracts

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Contributions

See: National insurance contributions

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Co-Ownership

• Shared home ownership scheme

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Coroners

• Coroners and inquests

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Corporal punishment

• Corporal punishment at school

• Smacking children

• When it may be used

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Costs

See: Legal costs

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Council tenants

• Exchanging council accommodation

• Finding council accommodation

• Right to buy

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County court

• Cases dealt with by the county court

• Small claims procedure

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Courts

• Cases dealt with by different courts

• Court-based dispute resolution when ending a marriage

• Court-based dispute resolution when ending a relationship of living together

• Publicly-funded legal representation

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Credit

• Age restrictions

• Chargebacks - claiming money for goods bought by credit or debit card

• Credit cards

• Credit notes - buying goods

• Credit notes - buying services

• Credit reference agencies

• Debt

• Doorstep sales

• Extortionate credit and unfair credit relationships

• Frequently asked questions about credit

• Identity theft (frequently asked questions)

• Islamic mortgages

• Problems with credit

• Red-lining - refusal of credit on grounds of where a person lives

• Refusal of credit

• Types of credit

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Credit unions

• Credit unions

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Criminal Injuries Compensation Authority

• Compensation for criminal injuries

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Criminal legal aid

• Criminal legal aid

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Criminal record

• Applying for a job - disclosing a criminal record (Frequently asked questions)

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Crisis loans

• Loans from the social fund

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Customs

• Customs allowances

• Prohibited and restricted goods

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Cyclists

See: Bicycles

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