IRRV Alert - week ending 21st August 2020
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Conversion of Support for Mortgage Interest (SMI) from a benefit into a loan (20 August 2020)
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Conversion of Support for Mortgage Interest (SMI) from a benefit into a loan
Communications with claimants on the changes to SMI and claimants’ decisions on taking up the loan.
Published 29 January 2019
Last updated 20 August 2020 — see all updates
From:
Department for Work and Pensions
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Tables: Conversion of SMI from a benefit into a loan: claimant communication and loan take up, August 2020
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Background: Conversion of SMI from a benefit into a loan: claimant communication and loan take up
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Support for Mortgage Interest (SMI) stopped being a benefit and became a loan on 6 April 2018.
This publication contains management information on communications with claimants on the changes to SMI and claimants’ decisions on taking up the loan.
Since the March 2018 release, a technical issue has been corrected on the management information system used to produce the figures. The issue resulted in around 13% of claimants’ records being moved to a new loans system ahead of the introduction of the SMI loan scheme on 6 April and meant they were missing from the earlier figures published in March.
No correction will be made to the figures in March. The figures for March are therefore not comparable with subsequent months.
Published 29 January 2019
Last updated 20 August 2020 + show all updates