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What makes you self-employed, what counts as trading and what to do, including registering for Self Assessment.
When you start repaying your student loan, your monthly repayments, what to do if you have 2 jobs or are self-employed, how to get a refund if you've overpaid.
Holiday entitlement or annual leave - information for employers and workers on entitlement, calculating leave, taking leave, accruing leave and disputes
Housing Benefit or Local Housing Allowance (LHA) - rates, eligibility, claim form, calculator, appeals, 'Discretionary Housing Payment'.
How to start a tax credits claim, when to claim, joint claims, backdate a claim
Disability Living Allowance (DLA) for adults - DLA rates, eligibility, changes because of Personal Independence Payment.
National Insurance - your National Insurance number, how much you pay, National Insurance rates and classes, check your contributions record.
How and when to report changes that affect your Child Benefit payments, such as earnings going above £60,000. How to update a change of address or bank details.
Sign in to the Construction Industry Scheme online service to file your contractor monthly returns or verify a subcontractor.
Who can sign (countersign) passport photos and application forms and what they need to do
How you're taxed on dividend payments and how your income affects the amount of tax to pay
A deed poll recognises a change of name of an adult or child - make your own, use official forms, or get one through a specialist agency or solicitor
File your Company Tax Return with HMRC, and your company accounts with Companies House
Check school performance tables (‘league tables’), Ofsted reports and financial information.
Some older people can get free travel on local buses - contact your council to check your eligibility and apply for a bus pass
You can use the SC2 form to ask your employer for Statutory Sick Pay (SSP).
Check you can get a divorce, agree or disagree with a divorce application, what to do if your husband or wife lacks mental capacity.
Get help and extra support when dealing with HMRC if you have additional needs - for example you have a disability or health condition, if English is not your first language or if you’re experiencing domestic abuse or financ…
Incorporate a private limited company - register it with Companies House and rules on directors, shares, articles of association and telling HMRC about the company
Claiming tax relief on expenses you have to pay for your work, like uniforms, tools, travel and working from home costs.
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