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  • Apply for an older person's bus pass

    Some older people can get free travel on local buses - contact your council to check your eligibility and apply for a bus pass

  • Use the Employer Checking Service

    Employer checking service (ECS): check your employee or potential employee's immigration employment status

  • Get your State Pension

    What you need to do to get your State Pension online.

  • Criminal record checks when you apply for a role

    Who can check your criminal record for a role, the application process and how to recognise a genuine certificate.

  • Taking sick leave

    Fit notes (formerly sick notes), holiday during sick leave, returning to work, long-term sick, dismissals

  • Holiday entitlement

    Holiday entitlement or annual leave - information for employers and workers on entitlement, calculating leave, taking leave, accruing leave and disputes.

  • Check someone's criminal record

    How to request a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check for a potential employee or volunteer: types of DBS check, how to request a check, how much it costs, how long it takes.

  • The basic State Pension

    How to claim the basic State Pension and how it's calculated - for men born before 6 April 1951 and women born before 6 April 1953.

  • National Insurance credits

    Who can get National Insurance credits and how to apply or when to pay voluntary National Insurance contributions.

  • International Pension Centre

    International Pension Centre contact details for pension enquiries if you've lived or worked abroad

  • National Insurance: introduction

    National Insurance - your National Insurance number, how much you pay, National Insurance rates and classes, check your contributions record.

  • Home Responsibilities Protection

    Home Responsibilities Protection ran between 1978 and 2010 to help protect your State Pension: National Insurance credits, what you'll get, eligibility and applying.

  • Construction Industry Scheme (CIS)

    What the Construction Industry Scheme (CIS) is, work covered by the scheme and find out whether you should register as a contractor or subcontractor.

  • Voluntary National Insurance

    National Insurance contributions you can choose to pay if you have a gap in your record: rates, how to pay and what to do if you work abroad.

  • Defer (delay) your State Pension

    Claiming your State Pension later - extra State Pension, backdated arrears and lump sum payments.

  • Find out what type of DBS check you can get

    Find out what level of Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check you can get for someone else, such as an employee. Formerly a Criminal Records Bureau (CRB) check.

  • Additional State Pension

    Additional State Pension, also known as the State Second Pension or SERPS, is extra money on top of your basic State Pension.

  • Rest breaks at work

    Workers' rights to rest breaks at work - length of breaks, how your age affects rest breaks, exceptions to the rules for shift workers, young people, and drivers.

  • Check if a document allows someone to work in the UK

    Find out if a potential employee's document gives them the right to work in the UK and which documents employers should check.

  • Tax when you get a pension

    Income Tax on payments from pensions, tax-free allowances, how you pay tax on pensions.