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unemployment assistance and renting out room in your house

  • 29-01-2012 6:09pm
    #1
    sboyle01
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 243 ✭✭


    I am currently on unemployment assistance and need some extra income to pay my mortgage. I would consider renting a room as I live on my own but U.A. is means tested and does this mean I would lose the amount of rental income from my welfare payment. If so, would it be possible to rent to an employed person as the social welfare would not have a record of this. Any advice?
    Thanks


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  • #2
    hawthorne
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 618 ✭✭✭hawthorne


    JA is a means tested payment. Any change in income must be reported to the department at once.
    Renting a room means you will have an additional income.
    However there is a certain treshold in the meanstesting system. With your rental income you might still be under this treshold and there will be nothing deducted from your JA.
    It is up for the DoSP to decide onto this. Telling them the reason (mortgage payment) for your action will help in your case.
    The DoSP will have no record of the rent from an employed person. But the tax office will have a record of it.Since the tax office and the DoSP are compairing records from time to time it is down the road for you to get caught by the system.
    You have to report this income- otherwise you are possibly defrauding the state.


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