Redundancy & Rent Allowance

Milly33

Hi

I was wondering if someone could give me some advice about rent allowance..I will be redundant starting next month and I was going to apply for rent allowance, now I see that the amount of mula you get toward the rent is differant if you are living with someone what they call partner I suppose..What I was wondering if are you better off saying that you do live with someone but they are not your partner or do u just say you are lots of people are telling me differant things

Thanks

Sleepy

AFAIK, you can only get higher rent allowance if you're living with a dependent (i.e. a wife/boyfriend/child) who's financially dependent upon you. If your partner's working you wouldn't be elligible.

Milly33

Ne, you can get a help out with your rent after being made redundant if you dont have the means to pay..Anyone else know any more

sharper

Rent allowance is means tested according to your ability to pay. If you lie and try to pretend you're worse off than you are then you're committing benefit fraud.

Milly33

Mmm why do I get all the grumpy feck replies....thanks for the replies They are so usefull i do not know what I would have done without yer input...

Agent Smith

Milly33 wrote: »

Mmm why do I get all the grumpy feck replies....thanks for the replies They are so usefull i do not know what I would have done without yer input...

Fraud is Fraud.

Milly33

You should tell that to our government not me haha

Sleepy

Milly33, look at how you've replied to people (myself included) who've tryied to help you in this thread. Do you honestly expect any more helpful replies with the attitude you've shown?

Just in case it's of use to someone else, here's all the info on Rent Allowance:
http://www.citizensinformation.ie/categories/social-welfare/social-welfare-payments/supplementary-welfare-schemes/rent_supplement

Milly33

I didnt mean to be mean Sleepy just trying to be a light hearted about it... I have read all this information on rent allowance from the site but still it doesnt really answer my question.. All i can say is i think I have paid enough taxes and charges to the governement to finally get something back from them, i shall be willing to take every penny they are going to give me

Sleepy

To the best of my knowledge:

If you live on your own you're entitled to rent allowance once you meet the criteria in the link I posted above.

If you live with a boyfriend who's working, you're not entitled to dole or rent allowance.

If you live with a boyfriend who's not working ye may qualify for it but I think you'd need to be claiming welfare as a co-habiting couple i.e. one of you gets dole and the other is listed as a dependent for them.

I don't think you're eligible for rent allowance if you're sharing with others that aren't your partner.

Lux23

Sleepy wrote: »

To the best of my knowledge:


I don't think you're eligible for rent allowance if you're sharing with others that aren't your partner.

How do you work that out?

Sleepy

By not reading the article I linked to! My bad!

Had always thought rent allowance only covered an entire house/property rather than a person's share of that property.

Milly33

Yes spanks Lux...Of course you can get the dole and rent allowance if you are living with your boyfriend or as i like to say manfriend...I have a friend who is engaged and one who is married and they are on the dole..I still like u too sleepy dont get mad

Jo King

The whole thing turns on households. It is the means of the household which are reckoned. A single house may contain a number of households, even if there is only one kitchen and bathroom. If the relationship between the occupants is based on contract as in a house share then any rent then each are deemed to be individual households for the purpose of rent allowance. It i a question of fact as to whether couples are in a relationship based on contract as house sharers or in a de facto marriage. If the two sleep in the same bed it would be difficult to claim that the relationship is based on contract.
Nobody is going to take up a houseshare if it involves sharing a bed with a stranger.