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Advice regarding rent allowance

  • 04-12-2009 5:44pm
    #1
    LaLucy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 260 ✭✭


    Hi me and my boyfriend are expecting a baby and need housing. The baby will be born in may 2010 and we really need accomodation for then. My boyfriend is desperately looking for work but there is nothing solid around. How can we get rent supplement if we haven't rented for 6 months? Can we get a house if we put our name on housing list? Any help very much appreciated thank you


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  • #2
    snubbleste
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 31,117 ✭✭✭✭snubbleste


    Most information for your posts is publicly available on www.citizensinformation.ie or www.welfare.ie

    As regards your missed payments, it would take a few weeks for the payment to revert to the DSFA who would then reissue it if you could explain why you missed it. Chase it up in the office next week.


  • #3
    LaLucy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 260 ✭✭LaLucy


    From reading info on citizens info I understand I would get great benefits if I pretend to be a one parent family. As I do not want to go down that route I can't see where they give information for an unemployed couple expecting a baby and not renting presently. I just thought as there seem to be thousands of people on these boards and on dole that someone knows the actual info. I don't know. Ah I'll be better off ringing citizens information. Thanks for reply


  • #4
    Elliee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 529 ✭✭✭Elliee


    LaLucy,
    Ive been down this path only last month. You must be paying rent for 6 months and have a rent book or lease to prove it. Also bills from the rented address.
    OR
    Have your housing needs assessed by the local council. Now we were lead to believe that getting our housing needs assessed was getting on to the housing list. We spent 3 weeks adding my partner on to my application only to find out that wasnt a assessment. It can take anything up to a year in my local county council to get a housing assessment, they come out to your current home and see if your conditions are livable or not.

    Lucky my partner had been renting for months previous so we only had to wait one extra month for it to be 6 months before I moved in and now he claims RA and claims for myself and my daughter on his dole.


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