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Article: Government plan useless; Mortgage Rescue Scheme has not helped.
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- Birmingham Mail (England)
- Article date:
- May 2, 2009
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Byline: Jonathan Walker
AN OFFICIAL scheme to help families keep their homes during the recession has not helped a single family in the West Midlands - despite 48 pleas for aid.
The Mortgage Rescue Scheme was announced by Gordon Brown last September as part of a package to provide "real help" to people struggling with the downturn.
But official figures show nobody in the West Midlands has received any help from it at all. Statistics published by the Government showed 227 people approached West Midlands councils to warn they faced difficulties paying their mortgage, and 48 of these went on to apply for help.
But nobody received aid ...