Welfare recipients can become landlords soon

He wouldn't be entitled to anything if he has an income before hand , families get cut off or reduced payments if they go €5 over income level , but if you rent a room you can earn €14,000 and keep all of the welfare .

Well I'm one of those people you described but there's no way myself and my wife would have a lodger in our home now.

We're talking about people who are not working being allowed to earn 14,000 + while cutting off supports for those who are working but earn €5 over a set figure

You seem to misunderstand the social welfare system. A number of the payments on the system are actually taxed.

Rental property in this country is rarely if ever assessed. How on earth do you propose assessing every single room thats rented in a shared house in this country?

No. This is nothing to do with people in social housing. Its a small cohort of people who own their own home and receive a SW payment

The rent a room scheme means if the rent is under 14k its not taxed, most of the people who use this will be maybe people over 65 , they are just trying to increase the no of rental units on the market. The house owner will still need to send a form to the tax office declaring rental income . I see no problem here, it ll maybe be a few 100 people that use the scheme that are on welfare payments. We need every rental unit that we can get in the market. Single mothers on welfare are already allowed to earn extra income up to a certain amount per week

Yes we should build up, but not so we have a situation that causes social problems like Ballymun flats etc. High rise should also mean high quality, and size spec etc. written into law via building regulations. Min size per person occupying, utility rooms. basically no shoeboxes allowed.

Re the three categories of 30 story Blocks >Full time working in the vicinity, Lower income with state supports and the third with social welfare recipients only. Kept separate, good security for residents no mixing. Plus any anti social residents or families removed/put back on housing list if they view anti-social as a life choice.

It would be an interesting social experiment.

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Also its totally wrong that benefit lifers should get even more benefit top ups (>via renting out their free house) when the PAYE cohorts get practically no tax breaks/ allowances if they were to do the same.

There is no mention of this only being available to homeowners .

Its "in their own home" - This is only for homeowners

assumptions

1 - that these are all unemployed lazy spongers.

2 - That they will get 14k a year - That's laughable

Finally the government actually does something that will add lower price rental to the market in towns and cities all over the country.

The money goes to people on low income - everything from jobseekers, disabilty allowance and pensioners

But where there is a big win is that the money will most likely be spent and spent locally. That adds to vat, adds to local jobs, which in turn adds to tax. Circular economy.

But too many people just can't understand the concept. The probably prefer the giant landlords that only circulate money to their international well-off shareholders

Funny how sinn fein have been so silent on it and will probably remain silent. they never comment when a negative angle can't be found

Social housing tenants are not currently allowed rent out a room.

That is not being changed under this scheme.

You can actually. "Home" is the place where you live.

Whether you own it or not is irrelevant. This is very well established in law.

And yet people in social housing do

Its not allowed. This scheme is entirely separate.

Its not bizarre it's a simple discussion this is how a forum works ,

And yes there has been discussions around empty rooms in social housing ,

Like the claim made earlier ohhh it's Scaremongering , don't think people actually understand the meaning of the word .

COVID-19 is going to kill us all ,or the Russian navy is preparing to invade Ireland tomorrow , prepare for the worse that's scaremongering to a degree .

Why people have this notion of sjw echo chambers is beyond me