Welfare recipients can become landlords soon

Desperate times call for desperate measures.

It'll balance out when landlords become welfare recipients too.

Am i right in saying that this scheme is open to homeowners who are in receipt of social welfare payments and not tenants on social welfare who are either renting a house/apartment from a private landlord or the council.

Yes. Your carers allowance is actually taxable income, it's just below the limits where tax is applied. if you were to earn 14K in room rental, your taxable income would still only be the 11,388 of your carers allowance, as the up to 14k room rental income can be considered non-taxable. However bear in mind if you go over the 14k by even 1 euro then the total amount becomes taxable - 11,388 + 14,001 = 25,389 as taxable income.

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.