SMI Payments stopping

jess8789
jess8789 Online Community Member Posts: 4 Listener
edited October 2021 in Benefits and income
Hello,

Does anyone know if the date for cessation of payment for SMI benefits set out in Martin Lewis's article - see links beow -are correct? If so, then anyone who is about to be offered a loan instead has longer than until merely 5 April to consider their position than the DEP keeps telling us. 
I can't find anything online anywhere. CAB had no idea and the DWP are horribly vague!

This is the link to the article:

https://www.moneysavingexpert.com/news/loans/2018/03/if-the-state-helps-pay-your-mortgage-act-now-or-itll-be-stopped

(See the section under "If I do nothing when will the payment stop?"

Many thanks 

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  • CockneyRebel
    CockneyRebel Online Community Member Posts: 5,188 Championing
    https://www.gov.uk/support-for-mortgage-interest
  • jess8789
    jess8789 Online Community Member Posts: 4 Listener
    Sorry that's not the actual legislation 

    That's just the government's (very abbreviated) guide. Again this guide tells us nothing about the transitory provisions discussed by Martin Lewis, which actually give people much longer to consider their options than the government keeps telling us

    Do you have a link to the actual statutory legislation? 


  • jess8789
    jess8789 Online Community Member Posts: 4 Listener
    Aha I found it! It's regulation 19 of this statutory instrument:

    http://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2017/725/made

    Martin Lewis was right and we do have longer than until the 5 Apri!

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