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rent allowance question

  • 17-07-2010 5:01pm
    #1
    padr81
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 945 ✭✭✭


    Myself and my girlfriend have recently split up and she technically is guardian to my 2 children. I have custody of them 3 days a week, to top things off i'm also jobless atm.

    So atm im staying in my parents, obviously i can't keep myself and 2 kids staying on a sitting room floor Thursday through Sunday indefinately. I've bein to see my CWO and she said I'm only entitled to claim rent allowance up to €103.85 (the amount for one single childless person), which of course will only get me the crappiest of 1 bedroom apartments and in areas where i'd feel unsafe with my kids.

    Does anyone know if for example I was to get some kind of legal writing to state I have them 3 days per week would it by any chance improve my case to get rent allowance on somewhere that actually matches my needs?


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  • #2
    caseyann
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,941 ✭✭✭caseyann


    Having them three days a week,she should hand you some of the children's allowance also i think.And i don't see why not getting something in writing might allow you more for a two bedroom.
    Good luck op :)


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