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Buy your housing association home - including how to apply, who is eligible, discounts available and where to get help and advice.
Use this form to apply to a court to end your marriage or civil partnership.
You can no longer apply for a Help to Buy: Equity Loan - find out about interest rates and how to manage your Help to Buy: Equity Loan.
Arrange for the collection of garden waste by your council
Visiting a prisoner: visiting times, keeping in touch by email, telephone or letter, banned items and sending money to a prisoner by debit card or online bank transfer
When your husband or wife applies for divorce: how to reply (respond), what happens if you agree or disagree (dispute), what happens if you do not reply, what to do if your husband or wife does not continue the divorce
Small businesses can record income and expenses when money is actually paid rather than when they've invoiced or received
If you were adopted you can access your birth records or get on the Adoption Contact Register to find birth relatives - how to apply, forms and information for birth relatives
Free transport from your local council - eligibility, rules for children with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND), how to apply
Executors and administrators can use this form to give up their legal responsibility and role permanently (also known as ‘renunciation’) to apply for probate.
Use the online form to complain about not being paid the National Minimum Wage, employment agencies, gangmasters or working hours.
VAT repayments - work out if you're due a VAT repayment using your VAT Return
Authorise someone to deal with HMRC for you - how to appoint an agent, friend, relative or voluntary organisation.
Find out what vocational or academic courses and qualifications are available at schools, colleges and sixth forms in your area
Use this form to give notice of an unconditional change of name by resolution.
Use this form with a 'particulars of claim' form to gain possession of a property you own. The Renters' Rights Act 2025 may affect your claim – see 'Details' on this page.
Who has the right to reside in the UK - if you're a British citizen, from the Republic of Ireland, the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein.
Check SIA licences for security staff such as door supervisors, security guards, CCTV operators and close protection operatives.
How to make a request from public bodies and organisations under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), how much it costs and how long it takes
Form to extend stay in the UK as the partner or dependent child of someone who is settled here or who is a refugee or under humanitarian protection.
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