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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.

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From:
Department for Work and Pensions
Published:
29 January 2019
Last updated:
13 April 2021
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  1. Added a note that this series of Support for Mortgage Interest (SMI) management information has finished. The first release of a new SMI Official Statistics series has been published today, 13 April 2021.

  2. Updated the tables with data up to 5 August 2020.

  3. Added a note that the next release of SMI data will be published on 20 August 2020.

  4. Published the latest Support for Mortgage Interest (SMI) management information. The latest data is correct as at Wednesday 13 May 2020.

  5. Updated the tables with data up to 19 February 2020.

  6. Updated the tables with data up 27 November 2019

  7. Following the update on 10 September 2019, this management information will be updated every 12 weeks instead of every 4 weeks. This means the next update to the release will be on 3 December 2019 rather than 8 October 2019 as previously stated.

  8. Updated the tables with data up 4 September 2019.

  9. Updated the tables with data up to 7 August 2019.

  10. Updated the tables with data up to 10 July 2019. Announced date of the next release.

  11. Tables updated to include data to 12 June 2019.

  12. Tables updated to include data to 15 May 2019.

  13. Tables updated to include data to 17 April 2019.

  14. Updated release schedule. The next release of these statistics will be on 23 April 2019.

  15. Tables updated to include data to 20 March 2019.

  16. Tables updated to include data to 20 February 2019.

  17. Updated release schedule. The next release of these statistics will be on 26 February 2019.

  18. First published.

Documents

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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We stopped publishing this series of management information as of August 2020.

The General Data Protection Regulation means that Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has begun to delete claimant records from the data we use to prepare this management information, so any further publication of management information would be less accurate than data published in August 2020.

We now publish a new series of Support for Mortgage Interest (SMI) statistics – first release published 13 April 2021.

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.

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