Advertisement
If you have a new account but are having problems posting or verifying your account, please email us on hello@boards.ie for help. Thanks :)
Hello all! Please ensure that you are posting a new thread or question in the appropriate forum. The Feedback forum is overwhelmed with questions that are having to be moved elsewhere. If you need help to verify your account contact hello@boards.ie
Hi there,
There is an issue with role permissions that is being worked on at the moment.
If you are having trouble with access or permissions on regional forums please post here to get access: https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2058365403/you-do-not-have-permission-for-that#latest

Social Welfare Debt Collection

  • 09-09-2013 7:45pm
    #1
    classclown
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11 ✭


    Moved out of my flat almost two months ago where I was getting rent allowance. Received a letter today from a social welfare person asking why I hadn't paid my landlord for 3 months rent and when I will be paying him back. Never owed the bloke 3 months rent. The letter was like somthing a bank would send someone for debt collection except it was from social welfare. Thought it very cheaky of them.


Comments

  • #2
    danjo-xx
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,395 ✭✭✭danjo-xx


    Did you give any notice to your LL that you were leaving.

    Did you inform welfare that you were leaving.


  • #3
    classclown
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11 ✭classclown


    The landlord gave me notice to leave and I left a week and half before move out date given. I notified welfare to stop rent allowance at post office as I had moved out. And collected no more rent allowance. I handed the keys back to an employee of landlord in an envelope to give back to him.


  • #4
    Annasopra
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 41,158 ✭✭✭✭Annasopra


    Did your landlord tell SW you hadn't paid?

    It was so much easier to blame it on Them. It was bleakly depressing to think that They were Us. If it was Them, then nothing was anyone's fault. If it was us, what did that make Me? After all, I'm one of Us. I must be. I've certainly never thought of myself as one of Them. No one ever thinks of themselves as one of Them. We're always one of Us. It's Them that do the bad things.

    Terry Pratchet



  • #5
    classclown
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11 ✭classclown


    Yes he certainly did even though the rental contract was between me and him.


  • #6
    Annasopra
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 41,158 ✭✭✭✭Annasopra


    Maybe goto a local CIC and ask a solicitor their for advice or ring up FLAC

    Do you have any receipts of payment?

    It was so much easier to blame it on Them. It was bleakly depressing to think that They were Us. If it was Them, then nothing was anyone's fault. If it was us, what did that make Me? After all, I'm one of Us. I must be. I've certainly never thought of myself as one of Them. No one ever thinks of themselves as one of Them. We're always one of Us. It's Them that do the bad things.

    Terry Pratchet



  • Advertisement
  • #7
    classclown
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11 ✭classclown


    No reciepts to show payment.


  • #8
    Gatling
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 40,291 ✭✭✭✭Gatling


    Did you move out because your lease was up or were you asked to leave for reasons
    360_F_102352090_ie3kLjDIvgrT1sxVDknWCUh8PxgMYzM7.jpg




  • #9
    classclown
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11 ✭classclown


    Got eviction notice... I left 2 weeks before the official move out date... He kept the deposit


Advertisement