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Single parent and HAP - two claims?

  • 26-03-2018 11:59am
    #1
    spurious
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    Asking for a friend and don't want to give too much identifying info, but I have a query.

    She is a single mother, working fulltime. She is not and never has been in a relationship with the child's father.

    He has never as much as bought a packet of nappies for the child, doesn't work and lives with his partner on as much benefits as they can get. He seems to be an expert on the system. He minds his child while my friend is at work.

    He wants to be considered a single parent so that he can get increased HAP for himself and his partner. Is this possible? Would this affect her?

    TL; DR Can two people be down as the single parent for one child and both get HAP?


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  • #2
    zell12
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,023 ✭✭✭✭zell12


    If he has custody rights or even amicable agreement ie. 3 nights pw, then he can apply for a higher HAP payment.
    The two seperated parents can both be claiming HAP on separate properties for the same child.
    Yes, it is bizarre.


  • #3
    spurious
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Education Moderators Posts: 27,315 CMod ✭✭✭✭spurious


    OK thank you for your reply.


  • #4
    zell12
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,023 ✭✭✭✭zell12


    https://www.irishtimes.com/news/crime-and-law/courts/high-court/payment-to-separated-homeless-father-is-discriminatory-court-told-1.3268896

    Dublin City Council is paying €2,640 a month to accommodate a separated homeless father and his three children in an hotel three nights weekly when it could give him €1,500 monthly to rent an apartment..
    The man claims the Council is operating an unfair, irrational and discriminatory housing scheme in classifying separated fathers as “single” persons when allocating housing


  • #5
    vectorvictor
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 745 ✭✭✭vectorvictor


    spurious wrote: »
    Asking for a friend and don't want to give too much identifying info, but I have a query.

    She is a single mother, working fulltime. She is not and never has been in a relationship with the child's father.

    He has never as much as bought a packet of nappies for the child, doesn't work and lives with his partner on as much benefits as they can get. He seems to be an expert on the system. He minds his child while my friend is at work.

    He wants to be considered a single parent so that he can get increased HAP for himself and his partner. Is this possible? Would this affect her?

    TL; DR Can two people be down as the single parent for one child and both get HAP?

    Single parent isn't needed for Hap. If there is any documented or court ordered access arrangement (even one night per week) that is sufficient to get the payment for 1adult and however many kids are involved


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