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Find out how to pay a local council for a parking fine or parking ticket - if it’s a penalty charge notice (PCN)
Apply for your first adult British passport - who can apply, how long it takes, costs, how to apply, documents you need, passport interviews.
Check how much your visa application costs in the country you’re in
Search the Individual Insolvency Register for details about bankruptcy orders, Debt Relief Orders, Individual Voluntary Arrangements, and restrictions orders and undertakings
Employer checking service (ECS): check your employee or potential employee's immigration employment status
Check if you need a tuberculosis (TB) test to support your visa application and find an approved clinic in your country
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.
You could get a fine and penalty points if you're caught speeding, or could even lose your licence
Use the Attendance Allowance claim form to apply for financial help for your personal care if you're disabled and State Pension age or older.
Apply for council housing through your local council - you'll usually have to join a waiting list
UK border control - passport checks, visas for entering, customs, transiting and layovers.
Update your vehicle log book (V5C) and send it to DVLA to change your name.
Check if you're automatically a British citizen - it depends on where and when you were born and your parents' immigration status.
Sure Start Maternity Grant is a £500 payment to help with the costs of a new baby: what you'll get, eligibility and how to apply (claim form SF100).
Scrap your vehicle at an authorised treatment facility if it’s reached the end of its life and you want to dispose of it
Get details of your employment history from HMRC if you need to make a claim for compensation.
Using a registered lasting power of attorney (LPA) - attorney duties, starting to act, gifting, ending, revoking an attorney.
Check out how you can view proposed building plans or developments and object or comment on them through the local council
Holiday entitlement or annual leave - information for employers and workers on entitlement, calculating leave, taking leave, accruing leave and disputes
Check your council's website to find out when your rubbish will be collected
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