Mortgage help, for claimants with earnings, begins again in 2023

by on June 21, 2023

Those with long memories may remember the days when the means-tested benefits system offered real help to those with mortgages. Payments to lenders contributed, sometimes generously, to the liability of borrowers for interest payments. There has never been any help towards capital repayments within the benefit system. Things changed in 2018.  Mortgage interest help, as […]

Mortgage interest changes – finally on their way

by on August 20, 2015

I wrote some time ago, over 3 ½ years in fact, about the consultation and call for evidence that had been published by the government announcing their policy intentions for support for mortgage interest in means tested benefits – http://blog.cix.co.uk/gmorgan/2012/01/06/mortgage-interest-support-consultation/. The Summer Budget 2015 has now produced the date of introduction of the proposal – […]