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How to claim Statutory Parental Bereavement Pay and Leave: what you are entitled to, check if you're eligible and how to claim it.
How local councils work in England - types of council, decision-making, council finances, local councillors and making complaints
What to do if you go into hospital and you get benefits
Form to extend your stay in the UK for other routes under the Immigration Rules.
Resources for local authorities to support their roles as supervisory bodies for the Mental Capacity Act Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards (DoLS).
How to appeal a penalty if you’re a company director or an accountant who has received a penalty from Companies House for filing your company accounts late.
A patent registers your invention and lets you take legal action against anyone who makes, uses, sells or imports your invention without your permission.
If you get help from social services, direct payments let you choose and buy the services you need yourself, instead of getting them from your council
Your accounting period for Corporation Tax and Company Tax returns - financial years and accounting periods, changing accounting periods
Transport on trains, planes, cars, taxis and minicabs, buses, coaches and wheelchairs for disabled people - Freedom Pass, Disabled Person's Railcard, concessionary bus pass and Shopmobility.
Adult Dependants' Grant for full-time students who financially support an adult - funding, how to apply, eligibility.
Changing an inheritance after death (a 'variation') and how it can affect amounts of Inheritance and Capital Gains tax due
Rules for tinted vehicle windows and what could happen if you break the rules
You must tell DVLA if you have an atrial or ventricular defibrillator - download the correct form to let them know
Leasehold property - leasehold disputes, buying the freehold, service charges, lease extensions and Right to Manage
You may not have to pay the full fare at some river crossings, bridges and tunnels if you have a disability
Use the print and post form (IHT205) if the person died on or after 6 April 2011, and on or before 31 December 2021, and the estate is unlikely to pay Inheritance Tax.
If you’ve missed Self Assessment deadlines get an estimate of how much you’ll need to pay in penalties and interest
What happens if you're stopped by the police while driving - breath tests, motoring offences, faults with your vehicle, seizing your vehicle
Check SIA licences for security staff such as door supervisors, security guards, CCTV operators and close protection operatives.
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