Means-tested benefits: help with mortgage costs (archived)

New briefing paper

Support for Mortgage Interest (SMI) scheme briefing paper replaces and updates two former papers:

• Support for Mortgage Interest: the standard rate from 1 October 2010
• Means-tested benefits: help with mortgage costs

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Archive location

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• Support for Mortgage Interest scheme – Library briefing paper (latest archive 24 March 2016)
• Means-tested benefits: help with mortgage costs – Library briefing paper (latest archive 24 March 2016)

Other archive locations

• Research briefings listing page (latest archive 24 March 2016) – please note that the dropdown menu no longer functions
• UK Parliament website (archived 24 March 2016)

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