Just thought id ask has anyone ever appealed a decission for rent allowance/supplement
my story is as follows:
Moved into a house with my girlfriend paying €1300 rent per month and that way fine anyway about 6 months into renting our new home things didnt work out and we got along just fine as house mates so we split into different rooms and split everything 50/50 and things were great in truth better then when we were toghether, so last febuary i lost my job through no fault of my own and joined onto job seekers benefit as my income was now reduced to €204.30 now if you do the maths that cuts it very short to pay rent of €650 a month and eat and pay bills, so i was informed about rent allowance so i did all the usual forms with revenue, council housing lists etc and cued for 2hrs in my local welfare office and when i was seen they CWO seemed like a nice guy told me he was granting my my full rent allowance of €650 for the first 3 months and then €420 (i think) on the 4th month and after that, so with what little money i had left i paid off some bills thinking all was fine, that was on a monday and on thursday i got a letter from the HSE saying that my application had been declined on the ground is was co-habitting with my "girlfriend" so very quickly i picked up the phone and left a voicemail with the CWO and he called me back said he talked to the landlords partner (not the actual landlord) and she informed him that we were a couple living together so he presumed i fraudulantly filled out the form and declined it on those grounds, he told me to fill out an appeal and that they usually sided with the person appealing, now my arguement is that ive seen my landlord twice since i moved in now 13 months ago as he stays away once his money is there and seems like a genuine family man so he or his partner was never around to be informed of the updated living arrangements (but would have been had he been at the house and seen)
Its now 6 weeks later and still no sign of a yes or no from the appeal board ive rang them 3 times now, and everytime i rang ive been told they are STILL waiting from the file from the CWO has anyone been down this road before? the last time i rang the lady on the phone did say they sent reminders to the CWO about the appeal, to say im stressed is an understatment, i cant even get a job in tesco to ease the financial burden
my story is as follows:
Moved into a house with my girlfriend paying €1300 rent per month and that way fine anyway about 6 months into renting our new home things didnt work out and we got along just fine as house mates so we split into different rooms and split everything 50/50 and things were great in truth better then when we were toghether, so last febuary i lost my job through no fault of my own and joined onto job seekers benefit as my income was now reduced to €204.30 now if you do the maths that cuts it very short to pay rent of €650 a month and eat and pay bills, so i was informed about rent allowance so i did all the usual forms with revenue, council housing lists etc and cued for 2hrs in my local welfare office and when i was seen they CWO seemed like a nice guy told me he was granting my my full rent allowance of €650 for the first 3 months and then €420 (i think) on the 4th month and after that, so with what little money i had left i paid off some bills thinking all was fine, that was on a monday and on thursday i got a letter from the HSE saying that my application had been declined on the ground is was co-habitting with my "girlfriend" so very quickly i picked up the phone and left a voicemail with the CWO and he called me back said he talked to the landlords partner (not the actual landlord) and she informed him that we were a couple living together so he presumed i fraudulantly filled out the form and declined it on those grounds, he told me to fill out an appeal and that they usually sided with the person appealing, now my arguement is that ive seen my landlord twice since i moved in now 13 months ago as he stays away once his money is there and seems like a genuine family man so he or his partner was never around to be informed of the updated living arrangements (but would have been had he been at the house and seen)
Its now 6 weeks later and still no sign of a yes or no from the appeal board ive rang them 3 times now, and everytime i rang ive been told they are STILL waiting from the file from the CWO has anyone been down this road before? the last time i rang the lady on the phone did say they sent reminders to the CWO about the appeal, to say im stressed is an understatment, i cant even get a job in tesco to ease the financial burden