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supplementary welfare allowance-rent deposit queries.

  • 10-08-2020 12:08PM
    #1
    steve66
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 201 ✭✭


    Hi. My landlord is selling the apartment. I actually have until next January. But because of trouble caused directly or indirectly by my flatmate, I am happy to move.
    Iam receiving HAP and on disability. I am looking for help with rent deposit through SWA.
    How long usually would it take before I hear back from them?
    Is there a limit to the amount they will give?
    A requirement on the additional form is utility bill/rent book/mortgage repayment
    Leaving aside mortage repayment, is this a utility bill/rent from my current abode?


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  • #2
    zell12
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,047 ✭✭✭✭zell12


    Why would you get SWA for a deposit?
    Your current landlord will return your current deposit


  • #3
    steve66
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 201 ✭✭steve66


    I didn't give him a deposit. I have bee in the apartment for 11 years. I paid the original owner a deposit. She couldn't pay the mortage. A few property management companies took it over, then last year it was bought out. The amount
    I need now is about 4 times what I originally paid.


  • #4
    wifey28
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 327 ✭✭wifey28


    steve66 wrote: »
    Hi. My landlord is selling the apartment. I actually have until next January. But because of trouble caused directly or indirectly by my flatmate, I am happy to move.
    Iam receiving HAP and on disability. I am looking for help with rent deposit through SWA.
    How long usually would it take before I hear back from them?
    Is there a limit to the amount they will give?
    A requirement on the additional form is utility bill/rent book/mortgage repayment
    Leaving aside mortage repayment, is this a utility bill/rent from my current abode?




    Maybe it would be more appropriate to stay on until jan and save for a deposit?



    Getting money for a deposit isnt typically something SWa will do unless its a homeless situation, and even then it isnt a given


  • #5
    steve66
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 201 ✭✭steve66


    "Getting money for a deposit isnt typically something SWa will do unless its a homeless situation"
    Really. I wonder why social welfare gave me the form. I also spoke to HAP, asking same questions I asked.
    But, wait, It was SWA who helped with first deposit. I know this because they told me recently.


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