Rent Supplement
# rent-supplement - Tuesday 6 November, 2012
Cuts to rent supplement ‘forcing people to become homeless’
Focus Ireland says successive cuts to rent supplement limits are forcing people into such debt that they’re becoming homeless.
Share197 Tweet21# rent-supplement - Friday 21 September, 2012
Column: With so many empty houses, why are people still homeless?
Almost 4,000 people are homeless in Ireland. Joyce Loughnan of Focus Ireland outlines what we need to do.
Share Tweet46# rent-supplement - Saturday 11 August, 2012
Call for inquiry after €32m in state rental deposits goes missing
A Dublin TD is calling the situation a ‘scandal’.
Share2 Tweet18# rent-supplement - Friday 27 July, 2012
Column: Dark, damp room or the street – this is the choice faced by many
Cuts to rent supplement are forcing people to make impossible choices, writes Bob Jordan of Threshold.
Share Tweet37# rent-supplement - Friday 18 May, 2012
Column: Extreme poverty is right in front of us – and what are we doing?
One in five children go to bed hungry, yet State safety nets are actually being taken away, writes Sr Stanislaus Kennedy.
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Cuts to rent supplement will lead to evictions, say property owners
The Irish Property Owners’ Association says planned cuts to rent supplement could also put mortgages into default.
Share4 Tweet26# rent-supplement - Monday 5 December, 2011
Column: Landlords who don’t accept rent allowance are lazy – and classist
There’s an unpleasant undercurrent in Ireland that distrusts people on state assistance, writes Lisa McInerney. But it’s short-sighted, unfair and snobbish.
Share10 Tweet9# rent-supplement - Wednesday 30 November, 2011
Column: Rent supplement is supporting squalor – and keeping prices high
Through rent supplement the Government pays for an enormous amount of housing, writes Ronan Lyons. So why isn’t it using that to our advantage?
Share45 Tweet11# rent-supplement - Monday 29 August, 2011
One in 14 mortgages in 90 days’ arrears
Pressure grows for a general debt amnesty as new Central Bank figures show 7.2 per cent of mortgages to be in arrears.
Share Tweet10Claims for mortgage supplement now five times higher than in 2007
The number of people receiving the Mortgage Interest Supplement is almost 2.5 times higher now than it was in 2008.
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