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Find out about travelling and subsistence expenses for an employee's spouse when they accompany them on business trips.

• Updated: 30 December 2019

What happens to benefits if you or someone in your family goes to prison or is on remand.

• Overview

  Benefit payments and entitlement may change or stop if you, your partner…

• Benefits that stop or are suspended

  You cannot get benefits if you go to prison, apart from: the housing…

• Universal Credit

  You will not get the Universal Credit standard allowance if you’re in…

• Housing Benefit

  You may be able to continue getting Housing Benefit or make a claim for…

• Council Tax exemption and reduction

  You will not count as an adult living in a property for Council Tax if…

• Tax credits

  Reporting changes You must tell the Tax Credit Office about changes that…

• Child Benefit

  You can continue to claim Child Benefit when you’re in prison if: your…

• Support for Mortgage Interest

  Support for Mortgage Interest (SMI) is no longer a benefit. It’s now only…

Using a registered lasting power of attorney (LPA) - attorney duties, starting to act, gifting, ending, revoking an attorney.

• Overview

  You can make decisions on someone’s behalf if they appoint you using a…

• Property and financial affairs attorneys

  As a property and financial affairs attorney, you make (or help the donor…

• Health and welfare attorneys

  As a health and welfare attorney, you make (or help the donor make)…

• Start using a lasting power of attorney

  You must register the lasting power of attorney (LPA) before you can start…

• Prove you're an attorney on a lasting power of attorney

  Any company or organisation you deal with on behalf of the donor can ask…

• Attorney records and duties

  Keep a record of: important decisions you make and when you make them, for…

• Changes you need to report

  You must tell the Office of the Public Guardian (OPG) if: you or the donor…

• When a lasting power of attorney ends

  A lasting power of attorney (LPA) can end in several ways. Usually it ends…

Work out whether you can claim Married Couple's Allowance (MCA) and find out how much you could get taken off your tax bill

Self declaration form and accompanying notes for British nationals to get married or register a civil partnership (PACS) in France. For use in place of certificates of celibacy and custom.

• Updated: 15 January 2021

If you're an ISA manager, check how to manage additional permitted subscriptions for a surviving spouse or civil partner of a deceased investor.

• Updated: 6 April 2024

• Updated: 6 July 2023

Declaration confirming that there are no legal reasons why you should not be married in Italy.

• Updated: 19 September 2023