LRD guides and handbook April 2019

Universal Credit and other in-work benefits - a guide for union reps and workers

Chapter 7

Mortgage Interest Run On

[ch 7: page 71]

Mortgage Interest Run On is extra money towards your housing costs if certain other benefits are stopping because you are:

• returning to work full-time;

• working more hours; or

• earning more money.

You can get this help for four weeks, but only if you have been claiming IS, income-based JSA, or income-related ESA continuously for at least 26 weeks; you expect the work (or more money) to last for five weeks or more; you were entitled to help with your housing costs before your work started; and you will still have these costs when you start work.