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January 2011 - cessation of mortgage interest help
As you may all be aware, in January 2011 anyone receiving help with mortgage interest, who is on JSA (ESA/IS not affected) and who has been receiving help for 104 weeks, will no longer get this help - in fact they’ll get no help!
The earliest the 104 weeks could start was 4 January 2009.
This rule only applies to those getting help under the 13 week waiting period rules and not those for whom the 26 or 39 week period applied. There are a few other exemptions (page 824 of CPAG).
There doesn’t appear to have been much mentioned about this - maybe the Government were assuming that anyone befitting from these rules would be back in work by now, & maybe they were right?!
Has anyone read much about this recently - or has it been overshadowed by more recent announcementsmaybe?