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If you're over 80 you can get your State Pension topped up to £105.70 a week in 2025 to 2026 - for men born before 6 April 1951 and women born before 6 April 1953
Find volunteering opportunities, and volunteer rights, pay, expenses, age limits, criminal record checks.
Dismissal is when your employer ends your employment - reasons you can be dismissed, unfair and constructive dismissal and what to do if you're dismissed
Use the sponsor management system - employers sponsoring Worker and Temporary Worker visa holders
What to do about bullying and harassment at work - the law, action employees can take and advice for employers about their responsibilities
Get help and advice on employment rights - telephone, opening hours, website
Taking early retirement can affect the pension and benefits you get
Age-related tax allowance, calculating tax if you carry on working, National Insurance payments
Employers can use the 'Find a job’ service to advertise jobs online
Personal pensions, stakeholder pensions, SIPPs
You may be able to increase your State Pension based on the National Insurance record
Workplace pensions - your employer's responsibilities to you to provide a workplace pension and what automatic enrolment means to you
This form can be used to support you to identify what help and changes are available to help you move into work or stay in a job.
Home Responsibilities Protection ran between 1978 and 2010 to help protect your State Pension - National Insurance credits, what you'll get, eligibility and applying.
Personal pay and tax records you must keep to fill in a Self Assessment tax return: which records to keep, how long to keep records.
When and how to pay tax if you get money from someone's pension pot after they die - including 'death in service' benefits
How the death of your partner affects your benefits, tax and pension. What you can claim and who to tell about your change of circumstances.
The rules on working hours - hour and limits, rests, health assessments and terms and conditions
How to employ an apprentice, what's expected of you and what funding you can get.
Rules employers must follow when making staff redundant - consultations, notice periods, compulsory and non-compulsory redundancy and redundancy pay
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