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HAP question

  • 03-10-2020 11:06am
    #1
    jface187
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 461 ✭✭


    Hi guys

    I try to get HAP last year. I'm not on the waiting list for a house and had to go through all that first. I honestly found the paperwork too much. I had no clue what to do. So I left it there.

    This year our rent went up and my Girlfriend hours are cut due to COVID.

    Does anyone know if the process is easier now or can be done online?

    Thanks.


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  • #2
    StackSteevens
    Closed Accounts Posts: 873 ✭✭✭StackSteevens


    jface187 wrote: »
    Hi guys

    I try to get HAP last year. I'm not on the waiting list for a house and had to go through all that first. I honestly found the paperwork too much. I had no clue what to do. So I left it there.

    This year our rent went up and my Girlfriend hours are cut due to COVID.

    Does anyone know if the process is easier now or can be done online?

    Thanks.

    There's only one way to get onto the social housing list - and hence get HAP - and that's through the paper application form.

    It's not really that difficult, although it is long. Try doing it in stages, not trying to do everything in one sitting. For example sending off the tax form can be done straight away.

    Also, sit down and study the checklist to ensure that you have every piece of documentation set out on the checklist. If you haven't then you need to act on that, because they WILL NOT ACCEPT incomplete application forms and will simply send them straight back to you.

    If you're not up to completing it on your own, then you should contact your local Citizens Information Office who may be able to help you fill it in. And some local councillors are helpful too.

    But at the end of the day, there's only one way to get on the list - which seems fair to me.


  • #3
    jface187
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 461 ✭✭jface187


    I did see this on CIC site:

    Temporary arrangements during the COVID-19 emergency mean social housing applicants and applicants for the Rebuilding Ireland Home Loan do not need to get a physically completed and stamped HPL1 Form from Revenue. Instead, applicants can contact their local authority and ask that the local authority get the information electronically from the Revenue Commissioners on their behalf.

    That would be a big help, I really struggled to get everything stamped, esp the first time as I was moving between jobs. My girlfriend manger does not like dealing with this types of forms so that will be another hurdle.


  • #4
    StackSteevens
    Closed Accounts Posts: 873 ✭✭✭StackSteevens


    jface187 wrote: »
    I did see this on CIC site:

    Temporary arrangements during the COVID-19 emergency mean social housing applicants and applicants for the Rebuilding Ireland Home Loan do not need to get a physically completed and stamped HPL1 Form from Revenue. Instead, applicants can contact their local authority and ask that the local authority get the information electronically from the Revenue Commissioners on their behalf.

    That would be a big help, I really struggled to get everything stamped, esp the first time as I was moving between jobs. My girlfriend manger does not like dealing with this types of forms so that will be another hurdle.

    Ah come off it! There's no need to go near anyone else! (You're thinking of the income/salary form) You and your partner simply need to fill in two boxes each on the HPL1 Form (which is a single page, two sided document) then put it in an envelope, address the envelope to your local tax office - no need for a stamp, just write "FREEPOST" - and post it!

    It wil come back in about a week with the revenue stamp on it! Job done!


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