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SMI benefits - cessation dates

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Does anyone know if the dates for cessation of payment of SMI benefits set out in Martin Lewis's recent Support For Mortgage Interest blog are defiantly correct? I can’t find anything verifying his assertion that payments can be made beyond 5 April, i.e. until 7 May, even if a government Ioan is not applied for.

Martin says that if you do nothing payments will then stop on 7 May, which is a whole month later than the 5 April date the government statesman which is the date recited at regulation 19 of the appropriate legislation.

This is of huge importance bcos it means many elderly and disabled people have longer than they were told by the DWP in order to explore alternative options/apply for the loan etc!

However I cannot verify Martin’s information anywhere and the DWP says that all payments stop on 5 April (a date that Martin doesn’t even mention in his article but which is the date in the statute)

Can anyone clarify? Thanks
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