Support for Mortgage Interest

(asked on 18th December 2017) - View Source

Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many individuals received Support for Mortgage Interest in each of the last five years.


Answered by
Caroline Dinenage Portrait
Caroline Dinenage
This question was answered on 21st December 2017

Support for Mortgage Interest (SMI) expenditure and caseload estimates are provided in DWP Benefit expenditure and caseload tables. The table below shows the estimated SMI caseload in the last 5 years:

2013/14

2014/15

2015/16

2016/17

2017/18

178,000

159,000

136,000

128,000

124,000

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