A household in receipt of social housing support shall cease to be eligible for such support if in the preceding four years, it has failed to comply with a prescribed number of rescheduling arrangements for the payment of rent or rent contributions. This does not apply where the housing authority is satisfied that the failure is due to circumstances beyond the household\u2019s control.<\/p>\n
A qualified household on a local authority waiting list which refuses within a prescribed period a prescribed number of reasonable offers shall be ineligible for social housing for a prescribed period after the last refusal.\u00a0 \u00a0A housing authority shall not be required to carry out a social housing assessment in respect of a household in receipt of social housing support that applies for transfer to another form of such support.<\/p>\n\n
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Overview The 2014 Act introduced a new scheme for housing assistance payments (HAP). It covers rent payable by households who qualify for social housing support, for private rented accommodation. The household sources the accommodation itself.\u00a0Households who qualify for social housing support and are long-term recipients of rent supplements from the Department of Social Protection transferred […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[276],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19411"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19411"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19411\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31308,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19411\/revisions\/31308"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}