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Hello,

I am 19 and still live at home.

However, over the last few weeks (well, since Feb/March) my mother and I have not been getting on.

She is constantly putting me down, insulting me and saying the really nasty things to me. I had little self confidence and self esteem to begin with, but now it is gone and I am currently on the waiting list to see a counsellor to help me rebuild my self confidence and self esteem.

It's at the stage now, where, if I can avoid my mother, I will.

I am on a FÀS course at the moment and it finished at the end of June.

The house belongs to my grandmother and we live with her.

My question is, would I qualify for rent allowance? I get €196 per week from FÀS, but with rent, bills, etc, I couldn't manage on my own without some help. When the FÀS course ends, if I can't get a job, I will only get €100 per week on JA. Where I live, the cheapest rent is around €700 per month, for a one-bed flat. I have looked at hosue-shares and there are very few and the house-share's I did find, are looking for people of specific ages, usually 25+.

I have no friends and no family near-by. College isn't an option (for reasons which I'd rather not go into on a public forum).

Is there any financial help I can get?

Thank you.
 
€700 a month is the cheapest rent? Yea right! Not many people could afford to pay that even people who work for minimum wage.

Just say you're a student and looking for digs.. families would be more than happy to accept a few quid under the rent a room scheme and in exchange you get a room with esb and maybe even broadband included. Also, it's summer time! All the students have gone home leaving plenty of vacant rooms!
 
I have looked and looked but €700 seems to be the cheapest that I can find. I am still looking and hoping to find somewhere cheaper.

I am not living in Dublin, I am based down the country and there are no college's/uni's where I live.
 
options said:
I have looked and looked but €700 seems to be the cheapest that I can find. I am still looking and hoping to find somewhere cheaper.

I am not living in Dublin, I am based down the country and there are no college's/uni's where I live.
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Put an ad in the paper for a house share or vacant room. There's bound to be something, even if it means moving somewhere a little further away from home.

There's only 3 full weeks left in June and then you'll be on €100. But even if you got the full rate of dole and rent allowance for a single room, you still wouldn't be able to afford a place for €700 a month!
 
hi i was recently looking for a place and i found the best place too look for really cheap places is daft.ie its for all over ireland, and all prices.. they even advertise house share..
Good luck
 
Check out the rules regarding rent supplement on www.welfare.ie

You would not qualify for Rent Supplement unless you've been renting for 6 months already or have been assessed by the local authority as having a housing need.

There are also maximum rent limits which apply, if rent is more than that Rent Supplement is not payable. 700 euro per month for a single person is quite a way over the limit for any county in Ireland.
 
for 700 down the country with no uni's or colleges you must be looking for a 3 bed house on it's own.
Try for a house share, you should have to pay more than about 250/300 a month.
 
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