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Can you stay on Disability Allowance & get a grant if you're on RAS & not getting RA?

  • 01-09-2010 1:38am
    #1
    marti8
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    I've read people saying that if you are on DA you can stay on it and get a grant but you'll lose your rent allowance (SWA) But what if you are on or transfer over to the Rental Accommodation Scheme (RAS) instead? Is that one way to stay on DA, get the grant and have your hosuing covered? And what about people who are in say council housing and don't get a rent allowance? It would seem a bit unbalanced that those on DA who are in council housing could get the grant and keep their housing while those on DA who are getting rent allowance would lose their rent allowance if they get a grant! Especially as the rent allowance only exists because there are not enough public hosuing units! Thanks.


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  • #2
    Annasopra
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 41,158 ✭✭✭✭Annasopra


    any chance a mod could move this to state benefits?

    It was so much easier to blame it on Them. It was bleakly depressing to think that They were Us. If it was Them, then nothing was anyone's fault. If it was us, what did that make Me? After all, I'm one of Us. I must be. I've certainly never thought of myself as one of Them. No one ever thinks of themselves as one of Them. We're always one of Us. It's Them that do the bad things.

    Terry Pratchet



  • #3
    Annasopra
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 41,158 ✭✭✭✭Annasopra


    marti8 wrote: »
    I've read people saying that if you are on DA you can stay on it and get a grant but you'll lose your rent allowance (SWA) But what if you are on or transfer over to the Rental Accommodation Scheme (RAS) instead? Is that one way to stay on DA, get the grant and have your hosuing covered? And what about people who are in say council housing and don't get a rent allowance? It would seem a bit unbalanced that those on DA who are in council housing could get the grant and keep their housing while those on DA who are getting rent allowance would lose their rent allowance if they get a grant! Especially as the rent allowance only exists because there are not enough public hosuing units! Thanks.

    If you get a maintenance grant you do lose rent allowance - however I am not sure at all if you can get RAS, presumably you can - Have you considered BTEA?

    It was so much easier to blame it on Them. It was bleakly depressing to think that They were Us. If it was Them, then nothing was anyone's fault. If it was us, what did that make Me? After all, I'm one of Us. I must be. I've certainly never thought of myself as one of Them. No one ever thinks of themselves as one of Them. We're always one of Us. It's Them that do the bad things.

    Terry Pratchet



  • #4
    Larianne
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 35,954 ✭✭✭✭Larianne


    Moved from Mature & Non-Traditional Students.


  • #5
    marti8
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    mango salsa wrote: »
    If you get a maintenance grant you do lose rent allowance - however I am not sure at all if you can get RAS, presumably you can - Have you considered BTEA?

    Sorry about the delay in replying :D I was making coffee. Anyways, anyone on RA, rent allowance, can get RAS - well, that is they can apply for it, if there's a suitable place they might get it. So what we're thinking is if we move from RA to RAS, remember RAS isn't RA, I could most likely also get a student grant? As it stands I'm on DA and heading to college as a mature student in Sept, was due to go last year (when I started this thread) but deferred, my wife is my adult dependent who is also heading back to college in Sept. Getting a few grand extra a year would be good. Pity they chnaged the rules, on BTEA you no longer qualify for any grant, on DA you can get a grant but if you do you don't get a rent allowance. For me RA is worth more than the grant, RA approx. €6,500 a year whereas a grant (adjacent grant rate since they bloody changed it last year for mature students) even with a top up for low income would be about €2,500.


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