rent allowance question

ooter wrote: »

the Maximum Rent i can Charge for the Year on the Rent a Room Scheme is 10,000 Euro so that works out at 833 Euro/Month.that's less than 950 Euro so if i can Rent to Her it should Work out well.
i'll make further enquiries tomorrow.
cheers

your information is a few years out of date - last time I looked at that was two years ago the max you could get would be slightly over 14,00 which was to include bills. I think that at the start of the crisis it was suggested that HaP might be extended to include rent a room schemes - But I don’t know if that has actually been implemented or if it has been but only for a stipulated length of time. Personally I would be very loth like the other poster to move a mother and baby in - apart from the noise and huge disruption and huge extra costs of having the heat on 20 hours a day ‘for the baby’, there is the issue of ongoing babysitting and childminding needs and her other half - partner/ dysfunctional relationship demanding rights. Plus if she decides not to pay or becomes noncompliant with her social welfare requirements you you will have a squatter in your house and never get rid of her BECAUSE she has the baby. And thats before she starts the ‘ but I signed up for a school using this address’ argument in 2 or 3 years time when you want rid of her and she is refusing to go. I’d run a mile. Say sorry, no. If you need the rent rent to a single working person.

Plus it is not worthwhile renting two rooms out to her - it sets your rent threshold too low to increase it again should you want or need to rent out to another person in the future when they increase the tax allowance for home owner renters. It also sounds nice and cosy but you will find you are in the minority in your own home when she has two bedrooms, full use of the kitchen and living rooms and garden and the hallway cluttered with prams and her partner or parents over every other day and hanging out in your house. No doubt she will be at home all day every day running up the gas and electricity bills and will be up and down half the night every night with a feeding/crying baby. More interrupted sleep and disruption. Where is her family, her parents, her babys father or her friends in this and why have they all walked away? And where has she been living until now that she cannot continue to live there still?