Housing Assistance Payment

The Housing Minister says it will allow more people to secure housing and prevent new entries into homelessness. Under the Housing Assistance Payment scheme, ...

Meanwhile the housing minister also plans to expand the couples HAP rate to single people, which Pat Doyle from the Peter McVerry Trust says will give them a better chance of competing for homes. Housing Minister Darragh O’Brien says the discretion rate will increase from 20 to 35% – that means councils can now pay up to 35% more than the current set HAP rates. The Housing Minister says it will allow more people to secure housing and prevent new entries into homelessness.

LOCAL authorities can now pay up to 35 per cent above existing rent limits in Housing Assistance Payments, it's been announced. HAP is a form of so.

While we wait for more stock to come onto the market, targeted and time limited measures like a rent freeze must be considered by government to protect all renters.” Following months of campaigning for the revision of the HAP scheme, Labour housing spokesperson Rebecca Moynihan welcomed the announcement of changes to the scheme. Up until now, local authorities only had the power to pay up to 20 per cent above existing rent limits in housing assistance payments.

HAP is a form of social housing support for people who have a long-term housing need and is administered by the local authorities, who pay the landlords ...

Hard pressed families will be relieved with this news and it is particularly welcome to see attention given to the over 400,000 people who live alone in Ireland. Housing for all sets us on a pathway to delivering 90,000 social homes between now and the end of 2030.” That analysis and recommendations have now been presented to the minister.

Local authorities administer the scheme and pay the landlords directly. Tenants pay a weekly HAP rent contribution to the local authority, based on their income ...

You may be asked for a copy of the rental agreement with your landlord. Tenants pay a weekly HAP rent contribution to the local authority, based on their income and ability to pay. You must apply within six weeks of being asked to do so. It’s for people who have a long-term housing need i.e. they’re on the authority’s housing list. The Housing Assistance Payment is a form of support for social housing. The Fianna Fail TD said that doing this would prevent more people from becoming homeless.

Housing charities have welcomed an announcement by the Minister for Housing of plans to allow higher Housing Assistance Payment rates, possibly by as early ...

Housing charities attending the conference, which is taking place at Croke Park, welcomed the moves. That review has been submitted and is now being examined within the department. Minister Darragh O'Brien made the announcement at the international FEANTSA Conference in Croke Park, telling RTÉ afterwards that he hoped the changes would apply from next month.

Local authorities are being allowed to increase the HAP discretionary payment by 35%

by dramatically ramping up social housing expenditure." Changes to the Housing Assistance Payment (HAP) are simply 'tinkering around the edges' of a wider problem. HAP changes 'tinkering around the edges' of housing problem

The Housing Minister has announced an increase in the discretion rate for all HAP tenancies. Darragh O'Brien says the increase from 20 to 35% will secure ...

A rise in the Housing Assistance Payments discretion rate has been cautiously welcomed, particularly as rents rose ten percent in Laois in the past year ...

Crime & Courts Average rents in Laois have now hit €1,169 per month and €1,158 in Offaly. ‘’ It is likely that in line with what happened with the last increase in HAP rent limits in 2016, it will fuel further rent inflation.