>The latest figures show around 60% of tenants are in arrears with over 5% of tenants owing at least €7,000
>The weekly rent is determined in accordance with the council’s 2019 Differential Rent Scheme which is linked to household income and is calculated at 15% of the household’s biggest earner.
One person’s rent is another person’s income!
Christ. They’ll try everything EXCEPT building more houses.
So if I’m reading this right, you could be living in a house the council is renting to you for €400 p/m but then rent out the 2 spare rooms to college students and bring in €800 p/m in rent tax-free, plus keep your social welfare payment, medical card, fuel allowance and all other benefits?
I need to leave this place. That Move to Italy submission the other day is sounding more attractive.
So basically people on the dole and living in a council house with ridiculously low rent, that we already now is in arrears for most, can now charge market rate rent to rent out a room and pay no tax?!!
Wtf!
So now you have greedy private landlords on one side and council tenants on the other leaching of the workers of the country.
Dole + this = ~€24,000 pa
Not to mention all the free shit, medical cards and so on.
Imagine living in a house where the owner is on the dole and you are going out to work everyday and paying them rent as well as paying taxes for their dole! You couldnt make this shit up!
You shouldn’t have a spare room to rent if in social housing.
We’re a failed state, the social contract is well and truly broken
Genius idea. Super fair
It’s not for people living in social housing.
It’s not for people claiming HAP.
It’s for the many people on social welfare who own their own homes, but also claim welfare.
There’s many valid cases of that. People who are carers. People with disabilities. People on unemployment, maybe temporarily.
So basically the government is trying to buy votes.
A lot of people in this thread seem to think everyone benefiting from this will be someone on jobseekers allowance, living in a council house with spare rooms to spare.
*So a person who earns around €50k is now worse off than a dole lifer*
People here seem to think that being on social welfare automatically makes you scrounger on the dole.
Was this not possible before?
My understanding of the rent a room scheme was that anyone living in a house and renting a room could avail of it – that it was never limited to house owners etc.
This sounds like BS but it’s actually a very good law and should help by adding much needed rooms to the market
How about “renting out a room” in your house while going to live in Portugal for a while. Sure how would they know ?
Someone stole the SF playbook on this one.
Honestly, if you’re in a council house and have extra bedrooms you should be moved to a smaller property.
Dole – 18k
Room rent – 14k
Med card – 2-20k
Minimum wage needs to be 35k a year just to keep up.
Now they’re making people on social welfare landlords? What is this country’s obsession with subletting?
This is just gong to be liable for fraud and friends/relatives “renting” each others gaffs for the bonus vacation money they get.
I understand there are genuine social welfare cases where this could help such as life long disability, but then I wonder are there many people that have disabilities that would feel comfortable allowing a stranger to live with them for pay? Idk.
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Sure why not, not like they’d be able to manage to pay taxes anyway when they can’t even pay their token rent for social housing
https://www.thejournal.ie/dublin-city-council-5-4956180-Jan2020/
>The latest figures show around 60% of tenants are in arrears with over 5% of tenants owing at least €7,000
>The weekly rent is determined in accordance with the council’s 2019 Differential Rent Scheme which is linked to household income and is calculated at 15% of the household’s biggest earner.
One person’s rent is another person’s income!
Christ. They’ll try everything EXCEPT building more houses.
So if I’m reading this right, you could be living in a house the council is renting to you for €400 p/m but then rent out the 2 spare rooms to college students and bring in €800 p/m in rent tax-free, plus keep your social welfare payment, medical card, fuel allowance and all other benefits?
I need to leave this place. That Move to Italy submission the other day is sounding more attractive.
So basically people on the dole and living in a council house with ridiculously low rent, that we already now is in arrears for most, can now charge market rate rent to rent out a room and pay no tax?!!
Wtf!
So now you have greedy private landlords on one side and council tenants on the other leaching of the workers of the country.
Dole + this = ~€24,000 pa
Not to mention all the free shit, medical cards and so on.
Imagine living in a house where the owner is on the dole and you are going out to work everyday and paying them rent as well as paying taxes for their dole! You couldnt make this shit up!
You shouldn’t have a spare room to rent if in social housing.
We’re a failed state, the social contract is well and truly broken
Genius idea. Super fair
It’s not for people living in social housing.
It’s not for people claiming HAP.
It’s for the many people on social welfare who own their own homes, but also claim welfare.
There’s many valid cases of that. People who are carers. People with disabilities. People on unemployment, maybe temporarily.
So basically the government is trying to buy votes.
A lot of people in this thread seem to think everyone benefiting from this will be someone on jobseekers allowance, living in a council house with spare rooms to spare.
*So a person who earns around €50k is now worse off than a dole lifer*
People here seem to think that being on social welfare automatically makes you scrounger on the dole.
Was this not possible before?
My understanding of the rent a room scheme was that anyone living in a house and renting a room could avail of it – that it was never limited to house owners etc.
This sounds like BS but it’s actually a very good law and should help by adding much needed rooms to the market
How about “renting out a room” in your house while going to live in Portugal for a while. Sure how would they know ?
Someone stole the SF playbook on this one.
Honestly, if you’re in a council house and have extra bedrooms you should be moved to a smaller property.
Dole – 18k
Room rent – 14k
Med card – 2-20k
Minimum wage needs to be 35k a year just to keep up.
Now they’re making people on social welfare landlords? What is this country’s obsession with subletting?
This is just gong to be liable for fraud and friends/relatives “renting” each others gaffs for the bonus vacation money they get.
I understand there are genuine social welfare cases where this could help such as life long disability, but then I wonder are there many people that have disabilities that would feel comfortable allowing a stranger to live with them for pay? Idk.
It’s really a tonedeaf approach all around.