Can anyone explain the logic of this please?

I am picking up on a few posts above, so may be misinterpreting the direction of the thread.

When those with mortgages get help with housing costs, it is usually interest only, nothing towards the capital repayments, so their situation is no different from someone renting. Once back in work, they will go back to paying capital and interest, but with a backlog of capital to pay off.

That's fair enough - I was querying why some people are given a loan and others have their housing costs paid.

It's very complex and no easy answer.
Working people on low income will get help with rent but not mortgage. I can understand taxpayers not wanting to fund a mortgage, but there should be some proper form of help, or more long term rentals.
Surely it would be in the government's interest long term to help councils provide more social housing, rather than pay large rents to private landlords.
And to go back to the original post, there is no logic behind low wages from companies making a fortune.

I genuinely can't understand people not wanting to fund a mortgage if they are happy to fund rent.

If someone has been made redundant, or is too ill to work (or has another valid reason for not working) and they have paid into the insurance scheme that covers welfare, they should be able to claim on it, regardless of their situation. I can understand people feeling that this can't go on for an indefinite period so that a claimant could get a house paid for by the state, but as has been said, rent payments will go to a landlord, who will get their mortgage paid, or their assets increased, and I don't see why people would be happy to do that but not pay towards a mortgage. The unemployed and the sick have to jump through hoops to be able to claim, so it's unlikely to be abused in the short-term. Maybe after a year the funding could stop, although quite where people who are unable to work are supposed to live, I don't know.

@M0nica. I don't think the duo offer help with mortgage interest any more.

Sorry - that should be DWP not duo !!

Things always change, when you think you know the answer!

Doodledog renting is more flexible. If you do not keep up with mortgage payments, the lender can foreclose and the house will be sold, but this may take time and the debt builds up and after all is sorted you may still be in debt to the mortgage lender. Not only that it make getting amortgage again later more or less impossible.

With renting, you can just give notice and go, perhaps to something smaller and cheaper. If you do go into arrears, you can also stay where you are until evicted, with no worse problem than a poor credit score.

Yes, I know - so all the more reason for people with mortgages to get the same deal as those who rent (ie get housing costs paid if they are unable to work).

I can understand the viewpoint of those who don't want to help buyers but I do not agree with it..
Not helping mortgagees is a major flaw in the benefits system, which the government just ignores. But then this is a government that thinks foodbanks are acceptable.

I suggest that the government go back to the old system of paying the interst but not the capital part of the monthly payment.

Like they're currently doing, you mean?

www.turn2us.org.uk/Benefit-guides/Support-for-Mortgage-Interest/How-much-Support-for-Mortgage-Interest-will-I-get

Well, I suggested this further up the thread and I was told that the government no longer paid mortgage interest, which was news to me, but I accepted that my knowledge was a bit out od date.

I have a feeling that you have to wait some months before you can get it, possible there was some confusion.

It is a long time, I think. (Probably long enough that people may well be back in work by then; conveniently)
Not that it applies to me, but I just wanted to point out that benefits are not thrown around willy nilly to some and not others.

I am not at all suggesting that benefits are thrown around willy nilly. I am fully aware that it can be a long, humiliating and frustrating process to get them, and that they are too low for people to live on comfortably. My point was in response to whoever said that help with mortgages is in the form of a loan, unlike help with rent.

Let's not shilly shally about the willy nilly.
I think we're all of
the same opinion, really.
It's crap any way round.

MissAdventure

It's not the same situation, so people won't get exactly the same help.
Do you think we should pay people's mortgages?
There are people who would be only too happy to point out that people shouldn't have taken on a mortgage for others to end up footing the bill.

The loan is cheaper than a credit union one, as well as every other option, and in reality only needs paying back if the property is sold.

The loan may not be repayable unless the property is sold, but interest is charged on it, so repayment largely depends on how long you want to go on racking up the debt, which then eats into the equity of the house if/when you’re in a position to move up the ladder.