Part Time Work and Rent Allowance

Banksey

Hello, I'll be starting a part time job, few hours 2 days a week soon enough and just put in an application before hand. Does anyone know if I will still get rental allowance while working part time?

Any help would be really appreciated.

mp22

Employment and Rent Supplement

You will not qualify for Rent Supplement if you are in full-time employment (30 hours or more a week). (In the case of couples, if one of a couple is in full time employment, both are excluded from claiming Rent Supplement).
Since June 2007, if you have been accepted as being in need of accommodation under the Rental Accommodation Scheme by your local authority and you have been unemployed or not in full-time employment for at least 12 months before you start work you may be able to keep your Rent Supplement. You may also be entitled to retain Rent Supplement if you have been participating in a Community Employment Scheme or getting Back to Work Allowance or Back to Work Enterprise Allowance immediately before you start work.
However, you will be reassessed for Rent Supplement and some of your additional income including some of your income from employment will be taken into account. As a result of the reassessment you may or may not continue to qualify for Rent Supplement. If you do qualify for Rent Supplement you may get a different rate of Supplement.


From here http://www.citizensinformation.ie/en/social_welfare/social_welfare_payments/supplementary_welfare_schemes/rent_supplement.html


Bottom line you will get less rent allowance when your income from work is taken into account,or none if you earn too much.

Banksey

Thanks very much MP22 for the fast reply. Just what I was looking for cheers.

lashofeye

sorry to hijack thread but if both people in a couple are working parttime can we apply for rent supplement??

mp22

lashofeye wrote: »

sorry to hijack thread but if both people in a couple are working parttime can we apply for rent supplement??

Yes you can apply.