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Daily Mirror
Daily Mirror
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Ruby Flanagan

Mortgage help extended to 200,000 extra households from today - see how it works

Universal Credit and other benefit claimants will be able to access mortgage support sooner from today.

The change means thousands more people can access a Support for Mortgage Interest (SMI) loan after three months of claiming benefits, rather than nine.

Alongside this, the support will be offered "automatically" after three months of claiming.

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