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Rent Supplement Appeal

  • 08-01-2009 12:07pm
    #1
    CyrildoSquirrel
    Closed Accounts Posts: 108 ✭✭


    Does anyone know where I can go to appeal a decision made by a Community Welfare Officer as regards Rent Supplement?

    My local CWO has said that I must find somewhere to rent for €550 a month or get my current landlord to re-negiotate my current rent from €750 a month to €550. If I can't do either then I will not be entitled to anything. I reckon she's cut me off entirely until I sort this out.


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  • #2
    c4cat
    Closed Accounts Posts: 518 ✭✭✭c4cat


    CyrildoSquirrel wrote: »
    Does anyone know where I can go to appeal a decision made by a Community Welfare Officer as regards Rent Supplement?

    My local CWO has said that I must find somewhere to rent for €550 a month or get my current landlord to re-negiotate my current rent from €750 a month to €550. If I can't do either then I will not be entitled to anything. I reckon she's cut me off entirely until I sort this out.

    It would take up to a year for an appeal to be heard, and i would not think you would win it either. Your rent is way over the top as far as the law says for a single person and the cwo can not make any other decision as the law stands. If you had dependents then the cwo is allowed more discretion


  • #3
    Kristopherus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,907 ✭✭✭✭Kristopherus


    c4cat wrote: »
    It would take up to a year for an appeal to be heard, and i would not think you would win it either. Your rent is way over the top as far as the law says for a single person and the cwo can not make any other decision as the law stands. If you had dependents then the cwo is allowed more discretion

    Incorrect. You should appeal to the Appeals Officer named in your refusal letter . Most of them have a code of practice they adhere to and your appeal should take no more than 6 weeks from the time your appeal is received.


  • #4
    c4cat
    Closed Accounts Posts: 518 ✭✭✭c4cat


    Kristopherus wrote: »
    Incorrect. You should appeal to the Appeals Officer named in your refusal letter . Most of them have a code of practice they adhere to and your appeal should take no more than 6 weeks from the time your appeal is received.

    whats incorrect, i did not say he could or could not make an appeal, but just pointed out the facts based on the info the op provided as to what the outcome would most be if an appeal was made. an appeal can only be upheld if the cwo has made an error based on the information provided in the appealants original claim


  • #5
    c4cat
    Closed Accounts Posts: 518 ✭✭✭c4cat


    Kristopherus wrote: »
    Incorrect. You should appeal to the Appeals Officer named in your refusal letter . Most of them have a code of practice they adhere to and your appeal should take no more than 6 weeks from the time your appeal is received.

    With the HSE decision, you first have to make an appeal to the HSE appeals officer. (this officer is basically just the CWO's Line manager. This officer is not very impartial as he/she works for the HSE.) this stage may take 6 weeks but if you are not happy with his decision, then you may then go to the Appeals office in Dublin who have a 10 mth backlog of cases the Appeals office is impartial as they do not work for HSE and they are not part of the HSE


  • #6
    CyrildoSquirrel
    Closed Accounts Posts: 108 ✭✭CyrildoSquirrel


    Thanks for all the replies. I can't really wait for too long, I'd need to borrow money just to pay the rent and I'd rather avoid that hole if I can.

    I'll just have to ask the landlord to agree to the lower rent. If he won't I will search for properties to rent for €130 a week (or less) that allow dogs and print them all out to bring to the CWO to show her what is out there. So far the only property I have found to rent for €520 a month that will allow a dog is in Rush. I told the CWO this and she pretty much called me a liar, I was too shocked to respond.

    As it is I live in a bedsit, you can't downgrade much further from that!


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