rent allowance question

my daughter has managed to get together the deposit for a small rented house, she will have to borrow a lend of the first months rent, the social welfare said they will pay the first months allowance to the landlord when everything goes through, but does anyone know if the landlord can hold onto that or give it back to my daughter to pay back the lender. is the deposit what they hold till the end of the lease or is it both

The Rent Supplement that the Community Welfare Office will pay is not refundable. Is your daughter iborrowing the rent to pay the landlord and isa CWO also paying the landlord her RA for the same month? If so, the landlord is getting paid twice and he will have to refund her.

I suspect though that the rent your daughter is paying is a month in advance anfd the rent the CWO will pay is for ongoing rent from the day she moves in?

thanks for your reply , she will be getting the cwo allowance into her account because the landlord has already received from her a deposit plus a months rent.

Would anyone know please if you are allowed an amount of savings if you are claiming rent allowance. I would like to get a savings account but I don't know is there a limit to how much you are allowed to save. I don't want to do anything that would get me in trouble and need to know where I stand on this area.

Savings would be means-tested for Rent Supplement. Here is how it's assessed (taken from www.welfare.ie)

Savings Means assessed (weekly)
First €5,000 Nil
Next €10,000 €1 per €1,000
Next €25,000 €2 per €1,000
Over €40,000 €4 per €1,000

So, for example, if you had €15000 saved, the weekly means would be €10 per week.

If you are on a means-tested Social Welfare Payment (e.g. Jobseeker's Allowance, Disability Allowance, One-parent Family Payment) that payment could be affected by savings as well (although the means assessed may be different to Rent Supplement).