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Big HAP issue

  • 30-11-2019 1:15pm
    #1
    Andyumaaris
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14 ✭


    Hi me,partner and 2 kids are on the housing list and we currently rent a private accomodation. We applied for hap 16 weeks ago and have not heard anything yet. We phoned the hap department several times but they always says we will ring u back and application is in process. So is it a good or bad sign? Why taking so long? Its normally 13 weeks. My partner currently on maternity benefit and i work part time. All the documentation from landlord submitted and whatever was needed from us was sent accordingly. Plz help


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  • #2
    bodhrandude
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,801 ✭✭✭✭bodhrandude


    Just so you know OP if you go on HAP you will lose your place in the housing list, it seems you have to choose one or the other, that's what my housemate who is on DA was told by Galway CC Housing dept.

    If you want to get into it, you got to get out of it. (Hawkwind 1982)



  • #3
    splinter65
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,420 ✭✭✭splinter65


    bodhrandude wrote: »
    Just so you know OP if you go on HAP you will lose your place in the housing list, it seems you have to choose one or the other, that's what my housemate who is on DA was told by Galway CC Housing dept.

    You can include a letter with your completed hap application asking to be left on the housing list.


  • #4
    Dante7
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,543 ✭✭✭Dante7


    Get a letter from your landlord stating that you will be evicted and then go to the Homeless HAP section. They will escalate it. Everyone else is gaming the system, so you may as well do that too.


  • #5
    171170
    Closed Accounts Posts: 321 ✭✭171170


    Dante7 wrote: »
    Get a letter from your landlord stating that you will be evicted and then go to the Homeless HAP section. They will escalate it. Everyone else is gaming the system, so you may as well do that too.

    Only an mentally challenged landlord would issue such a letter! Imagine what might happen if the tenant used it to go to the RTB!!! :p


  • #6
    Dante7
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,543 ✭✭✭Dante7


    171170 wrote: »
    Only an mentally challenged landlord would issue such a letter! Imagine what might happen if the tenant used it to go to the RTB!!! :p

    If you're 14 days late with your rent, the landlord will issue the letter. Most corporate landlords will issue it by default.


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  • #7
    beoir
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3 ✭beoir


    bodhrandude wrote: »
    Just so you know OP if you go on HAP you will lose your place in the housing list, it seems you have to choose one or the other, that's what my housemate who is on DA was told by Galway CC Housing dept.

    This isn't true.

    You can get HAP and be on the housing list.


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