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Rent Supplement - how long do I have to wait?

  • 21-10-2012 09:55AM
    #1
    moonlight47
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4 ✭


    i moved 2 months ago to phibsoboro.im in rent allowance accepted system. i sent all documents right after that to dublin 12 office.how long you have been waiting for this decision and rent money?i've been living 2 months now with 60 euros per week , everything else goes for rent.all bills are unpaid.thank you.


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  • #2
    Victor
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 78,652 ✭✭✭✭Victor


    moonlight47 wrote: »
    i moved 2 months ago to phibsoboro. ... i sent all documents right after that to dublin 12 office.
    Should you not have sent it to the office dealing with Phibsborough? Or is it all centralised?

    2 months does seem to be at the outer limit of what is acceptable, so a phone call would be useful.


  • #3
    moonlight47
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4 ✭moonlight47


    yes it all centralised.real estate agent warned me that many of the tenants waiting rent money for even 3 months.I did not want to believe him,But, as I understand it, it is still true.I do not even have credit to call into the office .I would not have guessed that I have to fight for survival......


  • #4
    MistyCheese
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,006 ✭✭✭MistyCheese


    Brace yourself... A friend of mine was recently waiting for five months for his Rent Supplement to come through. I hope yours gets sorted soon.


  • #5
    Yawns
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 4,255 ✭✭✭Yawns


    I know a couple who had to wait about the 6 month mark. Is this your first time for rent allowance and have you been renting before?


  • #6
    moonlight47
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4 ✭moonlight47


    omg!


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  • #7
    MrsF2011
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8 ✭MrsF2011


    My brother is waiting to receive rent supplement since February. He has been back and forth to the Social Welfare Office so many times each time they tell him there is 16000 other applicants ahead of him also awaiting their rent supplement. Then again someone told me the other day they received it within a few weeks whether that's true or not I don't know but in the case of my brother he is having a really tough time with the process. Good luck anyways.


  • #8
    moonlight47
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4 ✭moonlight47


    this is my fifth flat where i live.3 years ago there was no such problem with rent supplement.what's going on???grazy!!must be to spend Christmas with bread and water..I do not have TV channels from Wednesday,Internet is switched off,ESB will soon be knocking on the door...omg!


  • #9
    MrsF2011
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8 ✭MrsF2011


    Have you made a visit to your community welfare officer? You could be entitled to some extra financial aide ...


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