Community welfare officer

Helpplz

Can anyone tell me where the communities welfare officer is based for the Newcastle Co Dublin area.

I need to get in contact but have tried the social welfare office in clondalkin but just no answer on there phones,

I'd be very thankful of help

Equality

E-mail info@welfare.ie and info@hse.ie One or the other will send you an accurate reply.

Stevolende

I think it's above the Aldi in the West Side unless its been moved. Certainly was there for a number of years.

RACHEL28

Hi. Just looking for a bit of advice. I have been seperated from my ex for about two years and in that time he has paid the mortgage on our apartment. He lives there full time. I'm back living in my parents house with my son. I have been on one parent family payment for about ten months and recently got a letter from the local welfare officer to go and see him. He basiclly told me to get my name off the mortgage or my one parent family payment will be stopped. First of all I dont think you can just say I want my name off the mortgage and secondly I have invested thousands of euro into the apartment and just dont wont to walk away. At the moment it suits me that he lives there and pays the mortage. The apartment is not worth half the money we payed for it in 2007. Is the welfare officer allowed to ask me to do this?

Jmccoy1

RACHEL28 wrote: »

Hi. Just looking for a bit of advice. I have been seperated from my ex for about two years and in that time he has paid the mortgage on our apartment. He lives there full time. I'm back living in my parents house with my son. I have been on one parent family payment for about ten months and recently got a letter from the local welfare officer to go and see him. He basiclly told me to get my name off the mortgage or my one parent family payment will be stopped. First of all I dont think you can just say I want my name off the mortgage and secondly I have invested thousands of euro into the apartment and just dont wont to walk away. At the moment it suits me that he lives there and pays the mortage. The apartment is not worth half the money we payed for it in 2007. Is the welfare officer allowed to ask me to do this?

It is up to the bank to decide if you can be removed from the mortgage. Your ex would have to apply for a new mortgage himself, meeting the banks lending criteria, for the amount outstanding on the current mortgage. Speaking from recent and ongoing experience regarding a close family member of mine it is a very complex process, especially when the ex doesn't want to play ball. Regarding the legalities of what the CWO said, I don't know.

cee_jay

RACHEL28 wrote: »

Hi. Just looking for a bit of advice. I have been seperated from my ex for about two years and in that time he has paid the mortgage on our apartment. He lives there full time. I'm back living in my parents house with my son. I have been on one parent family payment for about ten months and recently got a letter from the local welfare officer to go and see him. He basiclly told me to get my name off the mortgage or my one parent family payment will be stopped. First of all I dont think you can just say I want my name off the mortgage and secondly I have invested thousands of euro into the apartment and just dont wont to walk away. At the moment it suits me that he lives there and pays the mortage. The apartment is not worth half the money we payed for it in 2007. Is the welfare officer allowed to ask me to do this?

Basically if you own a property in which you don't live, it will be assessed as capital means against your claim. So if your name is still on the mortgage, and you own it jointly with your ex husband, you can be assessed with half the capital value of the house, and your One Parent Family payment reduced accordingly.