Why is this important?
A to Z index - W
Wages
- See: Pay
Wales
Warm Deal Grant
Warm Home Discount Scheme
Water charges
- Paying for a water supply from Scottish Water or from a private supplier
- Paying for a water supply through a water meter
Water meters
Water supply
- Appealing against a refusal to connect you to the public water system
- Burst and leaking pipes
- Complaining about water services from a public or private supplier
- Contaminated private water supply
- Contaminated public water supply
- Getting a water supply from a public or private supplier
- Grants to improve a private water supply
- Interruptions to private water supply
- Interruptions to public water supply
- Paying for a water supply from Scottish Water or from a private supplier
- Paying for a water supply through a meter
- Private water supply registration
- Problems with public water supply
- Quality of private water supply
- Quality of public water supply
Weapons
- Knives and other blades brought by pupils onto school premises
- Licences required to buy or own firearms
- Police powers to search for weapons
- Young people - regulations about owning or using a firearm
Weddings
Weights and measures
Wheelchairs
Wheel-clamping
Whistleblowing
Widows/Widowers
- Bereavement benefits
- Bereavement benefits (frequently asked questions)
- Income tax for people aged 65 or over
- Reduced national insurance contributions for widows
- Retirement pensions
- War widow's/widower's pension
- What to do after a death
Wills
Wind farms
Wind turbines
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
- Young people as witnesses
Woman's organisations
Work
- See: Employment
Work Experience Programme
Work for your benefits schemes
Working hours
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
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






