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Help with mortgage interest repayments
If you've got a mortgage and you're on income-based Job Seekers Allowance or Income Support, you may be able to get help with your interest payments, although there is usually a waiting period during which you won't get any help.
How much is it?
You can only get help with interest payments (not repayment of capital or contributions to a linked PEP, endowment or insurance policy) and the amount is usually based on a standard average interest rate (which may not be the same as the interest you are paying). If you took out your mortgage before 2nd October 1995, you will get no help for eight weeks, half of the allowable interest for the next 18 weeks and then all the allowable interest after that. If you took out your mortgage after 1st October 1995, you will get no help for 39 weeks and then all the allowable interest from the 40th week of your claim. If you claim benefit because of the death of your partner or because your partner has left you and you have at least one child under 16, you are treated as if you took out your mortgage before 2nd October 1995.
How do I claim?
Once you have claimed income-based JSA or Income Support, your social security office will automatically send you a form MI 12 about your housing costs shortly before they become payable. You fill out part of the form and then send it on to your mortgage lender to fill out the rest. The money will either be paid to you as part of your income-based JSA /Income Support or directly to your mortgage lender.
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