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Social welfare issue

  • 21-12-2017 6:21pm
    #1
    friday5
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18 ✭


    Hi I've currently moved in with my partner I'm on job seekers ,having recently left my job of 3 years and My partner recently applied for illness benefit as he's too ill to work but was refused today. For the past 3 weeks he has been handing in cert to social welfare office and hasn't got paid a penny so I have been supporting him and his son on my €147 . He has a son from a previous relationship. Having contacted social welfare office they told him to contact the community welfare officer and he was told by them that he'd now be put on my claim and wouldn't be backpaid either .My question is can we get separate claims ? In a google search I see I'll get around €100 extra with him on my Claim . Currently the way it was we split bills and shopping . Our electricity Comes in at nearly €700 for 2 months (due to an apartment which we are trying to get out of but can't leave till July) plus €80 on shopping and then there's rent. If we were separate he'd get €191 and I'd get €147 which would allow him to pay the essentials and pay for his son and for maintenance. So currently am i expended to pay for his son when he's here (which is Friday to Sunday or maybe Tuesday, and all holidays) plus maintenance to the child's mother as the €100 get gets barely pay his half of rent shopping and bills .


Comments

  • #2
    utyh2ikcq9z76b
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,213 ✭✭✭utyh2ikcq9z76b


    Has to be something wrong with the electricity at that price, are you sure your not paying for another apartments energy as well


  • #3
    friday5
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18 ✭friday5


    Jasper Kind Slothfulness wrote: »
    Has to be something wrong with the electricity at that price, are you sure your not paying for another apartments energy as well

    We live in a council dwelling . All the tenets have the same issue . The council won't send anyone out and we can't move till the summer till my partner is here 2 years as you must live in your first council property for 2 years before moving


  • #4
    Squatter
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,841 ✭✭✭Squatter


    friday5 wrote: »
    We live in a council dwelling . All the tenets have the same issue . The council won't send anyone out and we can't move till the summer till my partner is here 2 years as you must live in your first council property for 2 years before moving

    Have you each got a separate electricity meter? If so, do you (and the other tenants) all have access to their meter? Do you know which one is yours?


  • #5
    friday5
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18 ✭friday5


    Squatter wrote: »
    Have you each got a separate electricity meter? If so, do you (and the other tenants) all have access to their meter? Do you know which one is yours?[/quote

    They're all locked in a shed, can only be accessed when the maintenance man is around to allow you access . I've only accessed them once for meter reading to send to electricity company


  • #6
    Squatter
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,841 ✭✭✭Squatter


    friday5 wrote: »
    Squatter wrote: »
    Have you each got a separate electricity meter? If so, do you (and the other tenants) all have access to their meter? Do you know which one is yours?[/quote

    They're all locked in a shed, can only be accessed when the maintenance man is around to allow you access . I've only accessed them once for meter reading to send to electricity company

    Can you check your latest electricity bill, look at the meter readings (there should be two numbers because if you have storage heaters then you have a day and night meter) and see whether the latest numbers were actual readings or estimates?

    (I'm sorry but I don't know how this is handled by pay as you go metering.)


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