Dáil Éireann Debate, Thursday - 5 December 2013
121. Deputy Éamon Ó Cuív asked the Minister for Social Protection further to Parliamentary Question No. 83 of 28 November 2013, the way a person who is on a back to work self-employment scheme can become eligible for rent supplement; her views on whether each condition makes it impossible to comply with the other; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [52345/13]
View answerFurther to the reply to Parliamentary Question No. 83 of 28 November 2013, a person who is in receipt of rent supplement who commences the back to work enterprise allowance may retain entitlement to rent supplement, subject to the means test, if they are deemed as eligible for the Rental Accommodation Scheme (RAS) by a housing authority. The back to work enterprise allowance scheme is designed to encourage people who are dependent on certain social welfare payments to engage in self-employment while allowing them to retain a reducing proportion of their qualifying social welfare payment over two years.
A new applicant for rent supplement who is participating on the Back to Work Enterprise Allowance scheme would not qualify for rent supplement.
