SMI cessation dates

Hello,

Does anyone know if the dates for cessation of payment for SMI benefits set out in Martin Lewis's article - see links beow - are correct?

If so then anyone who is about to be offered a loan instead has longer than until merely 5 April to consider their position, as the DEP keeps telling us.

I can't find anything online anywhere. CAB had no idea and the DWP are horribly vague!

This is the link to the article:

www.moneysavingexpert.com/news/loans/201...w-or-itll-be-stopped

(See the section under "If I do nothing when will the payment stop?"

Many thanks

Thank you so much but unfortunately that doesn't answer my question. As I said, there are transitional provisions that seemingly allow for payment to continue until 15 July in the event application for the alternative loan payment is made and progressed with. The link I provided discusses this. I am seeking further information of this aspect.
Thank you anyway

Sorry not to have been clear. You're correct; the 15 July date is from my own calculations of the timeframes afforded in the various scenarios provided for in the event a loan is applied for and/or persued.
Do you have a ink to the legislation at all? I'd love to go through it and can save you the bother of doing so All I can find is the 7 page memorandum which doesn't recite the relevant provisions.
Thank you very much again

Aha I found it! It's regulation 19 of this statutory instrument:

www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2017/725/made

Martin Lewis was right and we do have longer than until the 5 April! It's disgraceful that DWP conceal this from us and that not one of their advisers appear to even know about it!

Thanks for your assistance:)