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Rent Allowance

  • 24-06-2009 5:09am
    #1
    Bob Z
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,587 ✭✭✭


    If i move into a flat/ house can i get rent allowance? Or do i have to wait 6 months? i am currently not working


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  • #2
    Victor
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 78,580 ✭✭✭✭Victor


    If you are currently living at home, then yes, I think there is a waiting period.

    If you are living elsewhere, I don't think there is a waiting period.


  • #3
    ani_mal
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 321 ✭✭ani_mal


    I thinkg you should contact your social welfare officer, or first seek for info at www.citizensinformation.ie


  • #4
    gurramok
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,992 ✭✭✭✭gurramok


    You need to be renting for 6 months before you quailfy. (they sneaked that part in)


  • #5
    shoegirl
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,029 ✭✭✭shoegirl


    I think the idea is that you are a habitual renter and therefore NEED help with rent (i.e. you have no where else to live) not just jumping on it as a freebie.

    Would it not make more sense to say that if you are living somewhere else and that accomodation arrangement is not threatened then you should be entitled? That would enable somebody who for example might be likely to lose a home that came with a job to claim rent allowance immediately?

    Having said that, its fair I think, not to give rent allowance to people who have suitable alternatives, after all a lot of working people have trouble finding somewhere affordable to live with no assistance.


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