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Damages

See: Compensation


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Data protection

Guide to Data Protection Act

School records


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Deafness

See: Disability


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Death

Dealing with the financial affairs of someone who has died

Dealing with the property of someone who has died

Death certificates

Death of a child and claiming benefits

Debts - responsibility for debt when someone has died

Funeral expenses from the social fund

Inheritance tax

Still births - procedure for registering

What to do after a death

Wills

Work-related deaths

See also: Widows/Widowers


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Debt

Bank accounts - taking money from a bank account to pay creditors

Budget planning

Checking your finances - tool

Council tax arrears

Credit cards - difficulty making your repayments

Credit - types of credit

Creditor takes you to court for debt

Debt - seeking help

Debt Arrangement Scheme

Debt collectors

Debt consolidation

Debt Management Companies

Debt management plans

Disputing a debt

Disputing a debt - checking whether a credit agreement is valid

Disputing a debt taken out when under pressure, suffering from mental illness or learning difficulties, or under the influence of alcohol or drugs

Disputing a debt - taking action

Domestic heating oil - problems paying your bills

Earnings arrestment - taking money from wages to pay creditors

Electricity arrears

Explanation of some terms used when dealing with debt

Frequently asked questions about debt

Gas arrears

Harassment by creditors

How to sort out your debts

Identity theft

Increasing your income

Joint debts - disputing a debt taken out jointly with someone else

Living together and marriage - financial rights and responsibilities

Living together and civil partnerships - financial rights and responsibilities

Mortgage arrears – how to deal with mortgage debts

Negotiating with non-priority creditors

Negotiating with priority creditors

Options for dealing with debt

Redundancy - debt advice following redundancy

Sample letters to creditors

Saving money by spending less

Small claims procedure if you are claiming money or compensation for faulty goods or services

Small claims procedure if someone is claiming money or compensation from you for faulty goods or services

Unenforceable debts

Urgent debt problems

Wages - taking money from wages to pay creditors

Water and sewerage charge arrears

Young people


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Dentists

Abroad - going abroad for dental treatment

Complaints about dentists

Finding an NHS dentist (Frequently asked questions)

NHS dental treatment

NHS dental treatment charges


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Deposits

Getting back a deposit from a landlord

Phone services

Rent deposit guarantee schemes


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Detention

Police powers of detention


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Digital TV

See: Television


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Disability

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

Armed Forces - health information for veterans and their families

Armed Forces - housing information for disabled veterans

Banking - information for people with learning disabilities

Benefits for sickness and disability

Benefits if you have a disabled child

Care and Repair scheme for homes of owners, private tenants or crofters

Care homes

Community care services

Council tax reduction scheme

Debt - responsibility for debts taken out when ability to understand a credit agreement was affected by mental illness or a learning disability

Direct payments for community care services

Disabled Students Allowance

Education organisations

Employment and support allowance

Government employment schemes

Grants, loans and other assistance for home repairs and improvements

Help with the cost of personal and nursing care

Legal definition

Passports - services for disabled clients

Phone services

Power of attorney - help with financial and welfare decisions

Special educational needs

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

Dismissal because of discrimination

Equality and Human Rights Commission

Frequently asked questions about disability discrimination

Landlord's duty to make alterations for a disabled tenant

Private health care

Reasonable adjustments - adaptations to enable a disabled person to use goods, facilities or services

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

Dismissal and disciplinary procedures at work

Early conciliation

Informal solutions

Making an employment tribunal claim

Mediation

Raising a formal grievance


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Disconnection

Electricity supply

Gas supply

Phone services

Water supply


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Discrimination

Abusive neighbour disputes

Accommodation agencies

Age discrimination at work

Agency workers - employer stops giving you work

Agency workers and pregnancy

At school

At work

Benefits - discrimination when claiming benefits

Buying and selling a home

Council tax benefit - discrimination when claiming

Disability discrimination - taking action

Discrimination and your rights - Equality Act 2010

Discrimination when buying goods

Dismissal because of discrimination

Disrepair in rented accommodation

Employment tribunals

Families and children - discrimination in claiming benefits

Frequently asked questions about discrimination

Hate crime podcast

Health care

Health services

Holidays - discrimination while on holiday

Income support - discrimination when claiming

Jobseeker's allowance - discrimination when claiming

Letting property

Migrant workers - right not to be discriminated against

Pregnancy - discrimination because of pregnancy

Race discrimination - taking action

Racist attacks

Redundancy and discrimination

Religion - discrimination because of religion or belief

Renting from a private landlord

Renting from a public sector landlord

Renting property

Sex discrimination - taking action

Sexuality - discrimination because of sexuality

Sickness and disability - discrimination when claiming benefits

Solicitors - duty not to discriminate

Tenancy agreements

Unfair treatment by creditors or debt collectors

Working tax credit and child tax credit - discrimination when claiming

Young people and housing

Young people - problems claiming benefit

Young people - right not to be discriminated against

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 action

Dismissal - an outline

Notice

Pregnancy and dismissal

Retirement and unfair dismissal

Sickness - dismissal whilst absent from work due to sickness

Unfair dismissal

Unfair dismissal and age discrimination

Wrongful dismissal

See also: Redundancy


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Dissolution of civil partnerships

Ending a civil partnership

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

Complaints about doctors

Health information for people with learning disabilities

Professional misconduct by NHS staff

Treatment by GPs - patients' rights

Treatment for people from abroad


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Dogs

Cruelty to animals

Dog control

Dogs causing a nuisance

Dogs fouling

Getting and owning a pet

See: Assistance dogs


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Domestic heating oil

Bills - problems paying

Delivery problems

Domestic heating oil - general

Oil clubs - setting up and running an oil club

Saving money on oil bills

Supply - problems with oil suppliers


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Domestic violence

Help for people experiencing or perpetrating physical or emotional abuse in a relationship


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Doorstep sales

Direct selling by electricity suppliers

Direct selling by gas suppliers

Sales of consumer goods

Sales of consumer services


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Driving

Abroad

Age when driving is allowed

Disabled people - transport options

Licences

Mobile phone use whilst driving

Road tax - exemptions for disabled people

Traffic accidents

See also: Driving tests

See also: Parking


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Driving tests

Complaints procedure

Driving tests

See also: Driving


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Drugs

Drugs in school

Misuse - help available on the NHS

Young people


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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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Duty solicitors

Duty solicitors


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DVDs

Age restrictions on DVDs

TV licence required to use a DVD player

Young people


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