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dont want to mess up her allowances

  • 27-11-2009 12:25pm
    #1
    dac69696969
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3 ✭


    Hi all.Just wondering if anybody can give me a bit of advice on my situation.Ive recently started seeing a single mother who has a council house and is rceiving single parents allowance.I stay in her house sometimes and Im just wondering if this can come back to bite her....I dont want to mess things up for her as she is fantastic :)
    all advice appreciated


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  • #2
    Just_lil_ole_me
    Closed Accounts Posts: 21 ✭Just_lil_ole_me


    Yup if it's a regular thing.........unfortunatly it could the council feel they need to know everything short of what colour underwear you have on !!!!! If she has an enemy they could use this against her and report her.


  • #3
    jimoc
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 634 ✭✭✭jimoc


    dac69696969 wrote: »
    Hi all.Just wondering if anybody can give me a bit of advice on my situation.Ive recently started seeing a single mother who has a council house and is rceiving single parents allowance.I stay in her house sometimes and Im just wondering if this can come back to bite her....I dont want to mess things up for her as she is fantastic :)
    all advice appreciated


    One piece of advice I can give you from a friends experience, don't leave a toothbrush, clothes or anything else like that in the house, and the nights you stay there make sure you have a bottle of beer or wine or something.
    My friend stayed with his GF for one night a week and on the third occasion a social welfare investigator (or whatever they are called) banged on the door at 9 in the morning just to catch them!!
    Because there was no evidence of him staying there full time the investigator went away happy that it wasn't a full time thing and they heard no more about it.
    Obviously one of the nosey neighbours had reported them for fraud


  • #4
    January
    Closed Accounts Posts: 23,862 ✭✭✭✭January


    I think you're allowed stay up to three nights.


  • #5
    Just_lil_ole_me
    Closed Accounts Posts: 21 ✭Just_lil_ole_me


    adrieanne__x wrote: »
    I think you're allowed stay up to three nights.
    `

    That's if you are childrens father, not sure how many nights it is but the tenant has to make them aware if your in that situation. The Council and social welfare are 2 totally seperate issues.

    So if it was a community welfare officer CWO that called it would effect her social welfare payments if it's a housing officer it is her rent that is looked at and terms of agreement on the tenancy.


  • #6
    yabadabado
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,573 ✭✭✭✭yabadabado


    Just_lil_ole_me wrote: »
    `

    That's if you are childrens father, not sure how many nights it is but the tenant has to make them aware if your in that situation. The Council and social welfare are 2 totally seperate issues.

    So if it was a community welfare officer CWO that called it would effect her social welfare payments if it's a housing officer it is her rent that is looked at and terms of agreement on the tenancy.

    CWO's are part of the health board nothing to do with social welfare.social welfare inspectors deal with house calls involving SW payments

    as to a previous post if you stay over in your partners house on a regular basiss then they should notify SW


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  • #7
    seahorse
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,164 ✭✭✭seahorse


    The council and social welfare do not have any right to dictate against a woman having a relationship.

    Single mothers can have thier partners stay over up to three nights a week. Besides that, your gf of course can spend a couple of nights in your place if that suits you both. A single mothers partner is not supposed to spend more nights in her home than he spends out of it.

    You do need to watch out for jealous nosy bastards who'd take great pleasure in trying to make out that you were living together though. Ireland has no shortage of those, unfortunately.


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