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Will paying off my mortgage affect my benefits?

Will paying off my mortgage affect my benefits? I'm currently on Universal Credit and Pip. I have a Recoop (sorry for the spelling) mortgage and want to know if it will affect my benefits if i pay it ...

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Mortgage help with UC

Hi all, just looking for some advice so I’m on UC (since October 2021, on LCWRA, no children or career responsibilities), and have a mortgage (about 3 years in), and I’ve looked at the government ...

Profile picture of the author Discussion in Universal Credit (UC) - 21 Jun 2022

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Hi, my name is Caz2! Finding a mortgage while receiving benefits

Thanks for letting me join my husband is long term sick with COPD plus other illnesses I also have 3 young men 20,30,and 32 (our boys)on PIP too we want to get a mortgage as our landlord of 15yrs ...

Profile picture of the author Discussion in Housing and independent living - 18 Jun 2021

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new government mortgage scheme for first time buyers

Hi, even though i own my own house with my wife and my wife works part time, we have been told that we would not be able to get a new mortgage due to my wife working part time and because she is over ...

Profile picture of the author Discussion in Housing and independent living - 30 Jun 2021

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I currently work. We have a mortgage, but I also rent out a property. Would this affect ESA?

I currently work 35 hours but it's becoming harder and harder to continue. We have a mortgage on our home but I also own another property that I rent out. Would this affect any esa I'm entitled to.

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Help with housing for a wheelchair user in Southampton. Got a HOLD grant, mortgage seems impossible.

Hello everybody, hope you're all doing as well as can be during these times. My partner and I have been looking for housing suitable for someone with a wheelchair in Southampton for about a year now, ...

Profile picture of the author Discussion in Housing and independent living - 16 Jun 2020

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Nowhere to turn mortgage advice

my husband and I put our house up for sale as our daughter is 11 and is sharing with her 9yo brother who has autism. We put our house up for sale and had offers. However when it came to getting a ...

Profile picture of the author Discussion in Housing and independent living - 13 Sep 2020

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Housing and Mortgages and the HOLD scheme

So, I had a surge of hope when the "Home Ownership for People with Long Term Disabilities" was mentioned to me... but after months and months of research etc, it turns out it is yet another dead ...

Profile picture of the author Discussion in Housing and independent living - 3 Mar 2020

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What's a good way to get mortgage advice?

When I mean "What's a good way to get mortgage advice", I mean for someone who is not working due to health problems, and also, would like to see if there's any way that I could get some kind of ...

Profile picture of the author Discussion in Benefits and financial support - 14 Oct 2019

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(SMI) Support for Mortgage Interest ending

Another brown envelope arrived yesterday from DWP, I thought it might be about my MR decision. No it was just another kick in the teeth to tell me that the little bit of help I had received with my ...

Profile picture of the author Discussion in Benefits and financial support - 19 Dec 2017

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