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Employ someone: agree a contract, right to work checks, DBS checks, workplace pensions, set up PAYE, tell HMRC
What you need to tell DVLA and how to deal with vehicle tax if someone who was a driver has died
Find out how to nominate someone to collect your State Pension for you
Send money to a prisoner in England and Wales by debit card for free
Authorise someone to deal with HMRC for you - how to appoint an agent, friend, relative or voluntary organisation
How to update the property records and transfer a registered property when someone dies using forms DJP, AS1 and AP1.
When you need to prove and verify someone’s identity, you must get evidence about them. A vouch is one of the types of evidence you can collect.
Use Form COP1B to describe the personal welfare decisions you need to make for someone when you're applying for a Court of Protection order.
Find out how the Prevent programme supports people who are at risk of becoming involved with terrorism through radicalisation.
Use this form to apply for a Court of Protection order to become a deputy to make financial or welfare decisions for someone else.
Find what you or your business may need before you hire someone to act directly or indirectly on your behalf.
Use Form COP1C to describe the decisions you need to make for someone about their will or codicil, gifts, deed of variation or settlements of property.
How employers must handle written and verbal staff resignations, business transfers and redundancy pay
The employment status of au pairs, nannies, carers, personal assistants and other people who work in your home - how to tell if they're an employee or not, what happens with the National Minimum Wage, tax and National Insurance, what...
What to do if a British national goes missing abroad, reporting it to the police and how the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office and others can help.
You can allow another person or an organisation to help manage your account or act on your behalf.
The steps you must take when someone dies - register a death, report a death with Tell Us Once, coroners, funerals and death abroad.
Reporting a person who cannot work with children or vulnerable adults
Complain about a bankrupt person or someone with bankruptcy or debt relief restrictions who is not acting honestly or is acting as a company director
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