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Community Welfare Officer Question

  • 15-11-2011 9:21pm
    #1
    healz
    Registered Users Posts: 19 ✭


    Hi,
    I'm totally confused by this whole community welfare officer business.
    I'm a single mum, back at college to finish my degree. My ex who is the father of my child, has just been made unemployed. At the moment, I'm getting a portion of my rent paid by the HSE, but since my ex has been made umemployed does that mean my rent allowance should increase?
    I'm struggling enough to make ends meet without being down my maintenence amount every week. Will the CWO take into consideration I have childcare costs too?

    Any advice would be most appreciated, I'm going out of my head here!


Comments

  • #2
    maryk123
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 643 ✭✭✭maryk123


    if the father of your child is not paying maintenance go back to cwo and tell them. get a letter from him saying now unemployed and rent should increase. no child care isnt taken into account.


  • #3
    Lugh Ildanach
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 522 ✭✭✭Lugh Ildanach


    Any maintenance you get comes off your rent supplement, so if you're getting less (or no) maintenance anymore, then your rent supplement should increase.

    If you're in receipt of One Parent Family Payment, you're also supposed to let them know that your circumstances have changed. Unless you were getting more than 95.23 a week in maintenance it won't affect your payment, but they may ask you to chase your ex for more money, or they may chase him themselves for a payment.


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