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Paying off help to buy

Our help to buy 5 years is up September 2021 at the same time as our 5 year fix rate mortgage with nationwide. 
Our plan is to remortgage with additional borrowing to pay off the loan, we were going to wait until the end of the 5 years. However I’m going on maternity leave in August for a year so when we are due to remortgage in before September 2021, my payslips will not be representative of my income as will be on my lowest side of maternity pay (I’m an nhs nurse). 
Will this matter? 
Are we better to remortgage now, whilst I have true payslips, and the mortgage rates are low? 
We would have to pay a 1% early repayment charge (around £1600) 
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