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Get ready to employ someone - your responsibilities as an employer, register with HMRC, set up PAYE, get insurance.
You may be able to increase your State Pension based on the National Insurance record
DNA testing can be used in child maintenance or inheritance disputes, or applications for contact with a child or for a child to settle in the UK
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
Age-related tax allowance, calculating tax if you carry on working, National Insurance payments
Find courses and training online with the National Careers Service and get advice on funding the costs of learning
Workplace pensions - your employer's responsibilities to you to provide a workplace pension and what automatic enrolment means to you
Where to find internships and work placements.
Find out if you need to pay National Insurance in the UK or in the country you are working in abroad.
Benefits and risks of transferring your pension pot or pension in payment within the UK or overseas
Find out if you're eligible for New Style Jobseeker's Allowance and how to claim.
Ending a relationship and agreeing on money and property, child arrangements (sometimes known as 'custody', 'residence' or 'contact') and child maintenance
What to do if you go into hospital and you get benefits
Rights of employees when accepting conditional and unconditional job offers and about breach of contract
Employees working for one employer without a break, employments rights for continuous services, breaks that do not affect continuous service
Checks employers might need to run on job applicants, including right to work in the UK, Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS - formerly CRB) checks and health checks
If you have a long-term mental health condition you may be considered disabled under the Equality Act 2010
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.
Employ someone: agree a contract, right to work checks, DBS checks, workplace pensions, set up PAYE, tell HMRC
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