A to Z  - In N. Ireland

Damages

See: Compensation

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Data protection

• Guide to Data Protection Act

• School records

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Deafness

• Hearing loss - help and information (Frequently asked questions)

See also: Disability

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Death

• Death certificates

• Death of a child and claiming benefits

• Funeral expenses from the social fund

• Still births - procedure for registering

• What to do after a death

• Wills

See also: Widows

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Debt

• Administration orders

• Budget planning

• Checking your finances - tool

• Consolidation

• Credit problems

• Credit - types of credit

• Debt - seeking help

• Debt management companies

• Effect on credit record

• Frequently asked questions about debt

• Identity theft (frequently asked questions)

• Individual Voluntary Arrangements (IVAs)

• Living together and marriage - financial rights and responsibilities

• Small claims

• Young people

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Deed poll

• Changing a name

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Dentists

• Complaints about dentists

• Finding an NHS dentist (Frequently asked questions)

• NHS dental treatment

• NHS dental treatment charges

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Deposits

• Phone services

• Rent deposit guarantee schemes

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Digital TV

See: Television

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Disability

• Access to education

• Appointing someone else to claim / collect a person's benefit

• Benefits for sickness and disability

• Benefits if you have a disabled child

• Care homes

• Community care services

• Direct payments for community care services

• Education organisations

• Employment and support allowance

• Independent Living Funds for severely disabled people

• Legal definition

• Passports - services for disabled clients

• Phone services

• Power of attorney - managing someone's affairs

• Transport options

• Travel concessions

• Voting procedures

• Wheelchairs

See also: Disability discrimination

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Disability discrimination

• Code of Practice for provision of goods, facilities or services

• Discrimination in schools

• Discrimination at work

• Equality and Human Rights Commission

• Frequently asked questions about disability discrimination

• House purchase

• House sale

• Landlord's duty to make alterations for disabled person

• Taking action about disability discrimination

See also: Disability

See also: Discrimination

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Disability living allowance

• Disability living allowance

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Disablement benefit

• Benefits for accidents at work/industrial diseases

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Disciplinary procedures

• Disciplinary procedures at work

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Disconnection

• Phone services

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Discrimination

• Abusive neighbour disputes

• Accommodation agencies

• Age discrimination at work

• At work

• Benefits - discrimination when claiming benefits

• Buying and selling a house

• Complaints about discrimination in health services

• Disability discrimination - taking action

• Discrimination when buying goods

• Dismissal because of discrimination

• Disrepair in rented accommodation

• Families and children - discrimination in claiming benefits

• Frequently asked questions about discrimination

• Health care

• Holidays - discrimination while on holiday

• Income support - discrimination when claiming

• Jobseeker's allowance - discrimination when claiming

• Letting property

• Pregnancy - unfair treatment at work

• Race discrimination - taking action

• Redundancy and discrimination

• Renting property

• Sex discrimination - taking action

• Sickness and disability - discrimination when claiming benefits

• Tenancy agreements

• Unfair treatment by debt collectors

• Working tax credit and child tax credit - discrimination when claiming

• Young people and health care

• Young people and housing

• Young people - problems claiming benefits

See also: Age discrimination

See also: Disability discrimination

See also: Race discrimination

See also: Religious discrimination

See also: Sex discrimination

See also: Sexual orientation discrimination

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Dismissal

• ACAS Arbitration Scheme

• Claiming benefits after dismissal

• Constructive dismissal

• Dismissal - an outline

• Dismissal procedures

• Notice

• Pregnancy and dismissal

• Retirement and unfair dismissal

• Unfair dismissal

• Unfair dismissal and age discrimination

• Wrongful dismissal

See also: Redundancy

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Dissolution of civil partnerships

• Retirement pension after dissolution of partnership

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Distance learning

• Home study courses - registration and standards

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Divorce

• Getting a divorce

• Retirement pension for divorced women

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Doctors

• Choose and book

• Complaints about doctors

• Professional misconduct by NHS staff

• Treatment by GPs - patients' rights

• Treatment for people from abroad

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Dogs

See: Assistance dogs

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Domestic violence

• Help for people in violent relationships

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Donations

• Complaints about charity fundraising

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Doorstep sales

• Sales of consumer goods

• Sales of consumer services

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Driving

• Abroad

• Age when driving is allowed

• Driving licences

• Mobile phone use whilst driving

• Options for people with disabilities

• Traffic accidents

See also: Driving tests

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Driving tests

• Complaints procedure

• Driving tests

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Drugs

• Drugs in school

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Dry cleaning

See: Laundry

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Duty free

• Duty free allowances

• Frequently asked questions about duty free

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DVDs

• Age restriction on DVDs

• TV licence required to use a DVD player

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