How much do social welfare recipients contribute to their housing costs?

Yes Mathpac, my corporation told me that they are roling out HAP, all tenants on social welfare rent will move onto it. No idea if this is every county etc. (I think they did a trial in three counties)

I get an email every month with an invoice showing the amount I'm to be paid, directly into the bank account.

When I started on HAP I was trying to figure it out and phoned the corporation and made a summary for my agent as follows:

1. Rent is paid in arrears month.
   
2. Means deposit has to be 2 months
   
3. They are paying from start date 24th March – so watch out for that
   
4. Payment is €XXX + XXX, = XXX, I will get this end of April
   
5. From now on I will get xxx monthly. Ie the total rent
   
6. He pays them his % like the rent allowance so I think it's 24 he pays.
   
7. There are no ceilings, but he did mention a cap of max XXX whatever that means

You evidently have rental properties in a number of LA areas and seem to have a variety of payment schemes in operation, which must be confusing. There will probably be some short-term pain when HAP eventually replaces the other schemes.

HAP is paid to landlords monthly in arrears on the last Wednesday of the calendar month.