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Free and impartial help with money and pensions.

• Updated: 21 December 2017

Find out if you need to declare income from selling personal possessions, goods or services online, creating online content or renting out property using digital platforms.

• Updated: 13 February 2025

How to take legal action if someone owes you money (small claims court), how much it costs, what happens next. Includes information from withdrawn guidance EX303, EX304, EX306, EX321, EX325 and EX350.

• What a court claim is

  You can apply to a county court to claim money you’re owed by a person or…

• Court fees

  You must pay a court fee when you make your claim. If you know the claim…

• Claim the interest

  You can claim interest on the money you’re owed. The interest will be…

• Make a claim

  You can make your claim online, unless: you do not know how much money you…

• After you make your claim

  Your claim, including your name and address, will be sent to the person or…

• Resolve your claim through mediation

  Mediation is when an impartial professional (the mediator) helps both…

• What happens at the hearing

  If there’s a hearing, you can: represent yourself pay for a barrister or…

• Enforce a judgment

  You can ask the court to collect payment from the person or business who…

Find out if you’re a money service business and need to register with HMRC under the money laundering regulations.

• Updated: 18 August 2023

You can apply for a Parent of a Child Student visa if your child attends an independent school in the UK.

Apply for a UK Ancestry visa if you're a Commonwealth citizen and can prove that one of your grandparents was born in the UK - eligibility, fees, documents, how to apply, how long it takes and how to settle

Apply for a High Potential Individual (HPI) visa if you've been awarded a qualification by an eligible university in the last 5 years - eligibility, fees, documents, switch, bring your partner and children

What happens if someone makes a money claim against you, saying you owe them money, and how you can respond or defend yourself

How to pay Inheritance Tax: get a reference number, payment methods, use the deceased's bank account, National Savings and Investments, government stock, yearly instalments.

Apply for a Skilled Worker visa (formerly a Tier 2 General work visa) if you’ve been offered a skilled job with a UK employer - eligibility, fees, documents, extend, switch or update, bring your partner and children, taking on additional...