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Rent Allowance

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  • 11-06-2008 2:55pm
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    westcoast66
    Closed Accounts Posts: 211 ✭✭


    Some quick advice needed!

    We are letting out an apartment we have and had some prospective tenants in to view this week. Anyway, one girl says that she will take it. When she was viewing the place she said that she runs her own business.

    Now, we are signing contracts and she has just asked us if we will accept a rent allowance check from the Health Board.

    So can you be in employment and still get rent allowance? We feel like we are being led up the garden path here...


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    haveabadday
    Registered Users Posts: 124 ✭✭haveabadday


    Hi I think if you are Self Employed, you can still claim Rent Allowance best to look on Welfare Site and get more info there. :p


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    snubbleste
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 31,117 ✭✭✭✭snubbleste


    She could be on the Back to Work Enterprise or Back to Work schemes


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    starky
    Closed Accounts Posts: 103 ✭✭starky


    westcoast66 wrote: »
    Some quick advice needed!

    We are letting out an apartment we have and had some prospective tenants in to view this week. Anyway, one girl says that she will take it. When she was viewing the place she said that she runs her own business.

    Now, we are signing contracts and she has just asked us if we will accept a rent allowance check from the Health Board.

    So can you be in employment and still get rent allowance? We feel like we are being led up the garden path here...

    You are not being led up the garden path. It is entirely possible that this person could be on one of the various schemes that entitles them to a payment. It will most likely not cover the full cost of the rent but I am sure she can use it as part payment. People get social welfare help for lots of different reasons, even for periods when in full time employment.


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    westcoast66
    Closed Accounts Posts: 211 ✭✭westcoast66


    Thanks for the replies and info. I wasn't aware of these schemes. I'll have a chat with her to see if this is the case and what scheme she is on....


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    Darith
    Registered Users Posts: 320 ✭✭Darith


    I might be losing my job soon. However i was thinking of moving house before that. I know one must be six months renting before one can claim rent allowance, however what if i moved house, does the six months start over ?


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    carriec87
    Registered Users Posts: 22 ✭carriec87


    I'd like to know the answer to this one aswell... I am too in the same position... :(

    Anyone know the answer?


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    astrofool
    Registered Users Posts: 16,641 ✭✭✭✭astrofool


    You should be able to get the rent allowance paid directly to your account, rather than via the tenant.


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    carriec87
    Registered Users Posts: 22 ✭carriec87


    astrofool wrote: »
    You should be able to get the rent allowance paid directly to your account, rather than via the tenant.

    Yep, thought that... But how long do you have to be in a place before they will pay rent allowance? I heard its 6 months... See i'm livin in my place 3 years, but my bf lost his job so we took me off the lease to try and get him rent allowance cause it's hard to manage with just one wage.. Anyhow, they wouldn't help so i got put back on it in May and might find myself without a job soon... Do you think they'll help us out?


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    D3PO
    Registered Users Posts: 7,879 ✭✭✭D3PO


    if your both lose your jobs they will, but if your working then he wont get rent allowance is hes living with you.


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    gorjess-girlie
    Registered Users Posts: 35 ✭gorjess-girlie


    I started renting an apartment in March this year and applied for rent allowance in April and got it no problem. I wasn't aware there was a length of time that you had to be renting. I know of a few other people who moved straight out and recieved rent allowance. Just have a word with your local CWO.


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    carriec87
    Registered Users Posts: 22 ✭carriec87


    Thanks peeps... :)

    I knew about the whole me living there with him having no job, they'd expect me to pay... But thought we both wouldn't get it now that i was only back on the lease a few months...

    So glad to hear we will! :D


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    ronbyrne2005
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,494 ✭✭✭ronbyrne2005


    carriec87 wrote: »
    Thanks peeps... :)

    I knew about the whole me living there with him having no job, they'd expect me to pay... But thought we both wouldn't get it now that i was only back on the lease a few months...

    So glad to hear we will! :D
    if one person is working and you live together as a couple they wont give it to ya.


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    eth0_
    Registered Users Posts: 10,846 ✭✭✭✭eth0_


    carriec87 wrote: »
    we took me off the lease to try and get him rent allowance cause it's hard to manage with just one wage..

    Are you aware that you were attempting to commit social welfare fraud?


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    carriec87
    Registered Users Posts: 22 ✭carriec87


    eth0_ wrote: »
    Are you aware that you were attempting to commit social welfare fraud?

    If you were in the same position, wouldn't you?
    In this day and age, this is really the only way of getting what you are entitled to... He is more than entitled to it, like everyone else in this position. There's people in this country who aren't even legal but are claiming all our benefits, is this right?


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    astrofool
    Registered Users Posts: 16,641 ✭✭✭✭astrofool


    No it's not, and they should go to jail for it (fraud). All you are doing is lumping the OP in with criminals (and rightfully).


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    eth0_
    Registered Users Posts: 10,846 ✭✭✭✭eth0_


    carriec87 wrote: »
    If you were in the same position, wouldn't you?
    In this day and age, this is really the only way of getting what you are entitled to... He is more than entitled to it, like everyone else in this position. There's people in this country who aren't even legal but are claiming all our benefits, is this right?

    I'm entitled to have lots of money - doesn't mean i'm going to rob a bank, does it?


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