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Rent Allowance Questions

  • 26-09-2010 1:04pm
    #1
    OneForTheTeam
    Closed Accounts Posts: 160 ✭✭


    Hello all,

    I live at home in a smallish town that has nothing to offer me, wasting my time here. Im on the dole and living at home. A friend of mine may have a job gotten in a city, my question is if we get a two bed flat would I be able to get rent allowance?

    I would have more of a chance getting a job in this city, thing about it is, this person I want to move in with is female and im male, afaik they wont give rent allowance to couples? So been male and female im sure they will think we are a couple.


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  • #2
    gustafo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,759 ✭✭✭gustafo


    OneForTheTeam wrote: »
    Hello all,

    I live at home in a smallish town that has nothing to offer me, wasting my time here. Im on the dole and living at home. A friend of mine may have a job gotten in a city, my question is if we get a two bed flat would I be able to get rent allowance?

    I would have more of a chance getting a job in this city, thing about it is, this person I want to move in with is female and im male, afaik they wont give rent allowance to couples? So been male and female im sure they will think we are a couple.

    You will have to be renting for 6 months before your entitled to rent allowance


  • #3
    OneForTheTeam
    Closed Accounts Posts: 160 ✭✭OneForTheTeam


    gustafo wrote: »
    You will have to be renting for 6 months before your entitled to rent allowance

    Ok thanks didnt know that, is that newly in?


  • #4
    gustafo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,759 ✭✭✭gustafo


    OneForTheTeam wrote: »
    Ok thanks didnt know that, is that newly in?

    Tis like that all the time as far as i know


  • #5
    Balagan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,168 ✭✭✭Balagan


    You may get Rent Supplement if you have been living for 6 months (183 days) out of the last 12 months in one, or a combination, of the following:

    * Accommodation for homeless people
    * Private rented accommodation. You must be able to show that you could afford the rent at the beginning of your tenancy and that you could have continued to pay rent but are unable to do so because of a change in your circumstances which occurred after you started renting.
    * An institution, for example, a hospital, care home or place of detention
    Or
    * Be assessed in the last 12 months by a local authority as being eligible for and in need of social housing. If you don't have a housing need assessment, you must go to the local authority to have your housing need assessed. The local authority must be in the same area that you intend to live and claim Rent Supplement. Only when you are assessed as eligible for and in need of housing can you apply for Rent Supplement

    http://www.citizensinformation.ie/categories/social-welfare/social-welfare-payments/supplementary-welfare-schemes/rent_supplement


  • #6
    OneForTheTeam
    Closed Accounts Posts: 160 ✭✭OneForTheTeam


    Balagan wrote: »
    You may get Rent Supplement if you have been living for 6 months (183 days) out of the last 12 months in one, or a combination, of the following:

    * Accommodation for homeless people
    * Private rented accommodation. You must be able to show that you could afford the rent at the beginning of your tenancy and that you could have continued to pay rent but are unable to do so because of a change in your circumstances which occurred after you started renting.
    * An institution, for example, a hospital, care home or place of detention
    Or
    * Be assessed in the last 12 months by a local authority as being eligible for and in need of social housing. If you don't have a housing need assessment, you must go to the local authority to have your housing need assessed. The local authority must be in the same area that you intend to live and claim Rent Supplement. Only when you are assessed as eligible for and in need of housing can you apply for Rent Supplement

    http://www.citizensinformation.ie/categories/social-welfare/social-welfare-payments/supplementary-welfare-schemes/rent_supplement

    Thanks for that, so looks like i can get it due to living at home? So i would have to be renting for 6 months before I could try and claim it? Dont supoose they back pay it? Looks like im screwed so I have a car loan so 80 or so euro rent on a place in the city along with repayments of that means i couldnt afford it. So looks like im stuck at home:(


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