Social Housing Support Application Form March 2022
Social Housing Support Application Form March 2022
Social Housing Support Application Form March 2022
SOCIAL HOUSING
SUPPORT
Application to:
1. If you are unsure about how to answer any of the questions in this application form, please ask an officer in the
Housing Section or Customer Service Unit of your local authority or your local Citizens Information Centre to
help you.
2. When filling out this form, please make sure to write clearly so that your application can be processed as quickly
as possible.
3. Make
sure you have answered all of the questions fully where these are relevant to you. If you do not fully answer
all the questions relevant to you, you might not get the correct priority for housing or else we may have to return
the form to you, and it would delay your application. Only fully completed applications will be processed.
4. Your
rights as a data subject under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) apply in full and will be clearly
set out in the relevant data protection policies and procedures for the local authority to whom you are submitting
your application. If you have any query in relation to your rights under GDPR, you can contact the nominated
Data Protection Officer for that local authority. Details of how to submit your query will be supplied by the local
authority directly.
5. This
application cannot be completed without a Personal Public Service Number (PPSN) for all members of
the household included on the application form. If you are not aware of the PPSN for any children for whom
accommodation is sought, they can be obtained by contacting your local Social Welfare Office either by
telephone or in person. Please note that you will need to have your own PPSN to hand.
7. This
application cannot be completed without documentary evidence of income details given in this application,
as outlined in the checklist below.
8. In
carrying out its functions under the Housing Acts of 1966-2014, the local authority may request and obtain
information from another local authority, the Criminal Assets Bureau, An Garda Síochána, the Department of Social
Protection, the Health Service Executive (HSE), the Revenue Commissioners or an Approved Housing Body in relation
to occupants or prospective occupants of, or applicants for, local authority housing. Your data may also be shared with
other public bodies in accordance with our obligation to prevent and detect fraud.
9. Any change in the details given, particularly any change of address or income, should be notified to the local authority
immediately so that your record can be updated.
10. Local
authorities are required to report annually to the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, the
number of households in need of social housing support, under a process known as the Summary of Social Housing
Assessments. This process may require us in the future to contact you and request you to confirm details provided on
this form are accurate and up to date. Failure to respond to any such request may result in your housing application
being closed. Information supplied through this process may be shared with the Local Government Management
Agency and The Housing Agency for the purpose of compiling the Summary Assessment report, which is a statistical
summary at national level that informs policy and future planning in terms of the national housing need.
11. Please
ensure that you have supplied all the relevant information and supporting documentation to process
your application. However, be advised that the local authority may ask for further supporting documentation
at a later stage.
Please ensure that your application includes the following original documentation (an official translation into Irish
or English is required, where appropriate):
1. Personal Information
– Proof of current address (utility bill, lease or rental statement) – for all applicants, where applicable
– If renting, proof of tenancy agreement and Residential Tenancies Board (RTB) registration, where available
– Evidence of income (please arrange to have the attached Certificate of Income completed)
Employed
– Documentary evidence of the preceding 12 months’ income through a combination of the following:
• The previous year's Statement of Liability and the Employment Detail Summary*, both available from Revenue;
• Proof of the household’s current income, e.g. payslips for the intervening period from Statement of Liability to date of
application or a Pay and Tax Summary** – (Year to Date), available from Revenue. Where Additional Superannuation
Contribution (ASC) is payable, the previous year’s final payslip and the most recent payslip must be provided.
Self Employed
– A minimum of 2 years’ accounts with an Auditor’s Report and
– A Notice of Assessment and/or Self-Assessment Acknowledgement letter for the preceding 12 months
* An Employment Detail Summary for the previous year will provide information on the Income tax, PRSI and USC paid by an applicant in the previous year.
** An applicant’s current income can be demonstrated by submitting a Pay and Tax Summary. This summary provides information on PRSI, Income tax
and USC for the current year.
4. Property Ownership
– If you or any member of your household currently owns property, an affidavit or any other documentation
as requested by the local authority is required outlining the location, value, current status of the property
and any monies being received in respect of the property.
– If you are not resident in the local authority area where you are seeking housing support, please provide
evidence of your local connection with that area
– If you or any member of your household was previously a local authority/Approved Housing Body (AHB)
tenant, please provide a letter from the local authority/AHB where you or the household member resided
setting out details in relation to the previous tenancy. This letter should include duration of tenancy,
reason for leaving, arrears, any other relevant information.
– If you wish to apply for a single rural house or demountable dwelling, please include necessary accompanying
documentation (see Part 8 of this form)
– If it has been deemed that your mortgage is no longer sustainable and you have exited from the Mortgage
Arrears Resolution Process (MARP), please include a letter from the Arrears Support Unit of your lender.
– A completed Medical and/or Disability Information Form (HMD-Form 1), available from your local authority
Notwithstanding the required documentation set out above at points 1-6, in certain situations for example, where a
particular document cannot be provided, the local authority may, at its discretion, request alternative documentation
to satisfy itself in relation to the specific information being sought.
Please answer ALL questions and place a tick (✓) in the boxes provided. Please use BLOCK LETTERS.
APPLICANT 1 APPLICANT 2
1. PPSN
FIGURES LETTERS FIGURES LETTERS
2. First name(s)
Surname
3. Current address
Eircode
4. Telephone/mobile number
5. Date of birth
(attach birth certificates) D D M M Y Y D D M M Y Y
6. Gender
APPLICANT 1 APPLICANT 2
Email address
APPLICANT 1 APPLICANT 2
2. Nationality
* EEA: this refers to the European Economic Area (EEA) whose member states include: Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Czech Republic,
Croatia, Cyprus, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania,
Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden.
APPLICANT 1 APPLICANT 2
Self-employed Self-employed
Pensioner/Retired Pensioner/Retired
Student Student
2. Employer’s name
(in
the case of self–employed,
give company name)
3. Address of employer
(in
the case of self-employed,
please give company address)
4. Occupation
5. Employment status
(e.g.
permanent, full-time,
part-time)
6. Date
commenced present
employment D D M M Y Y D D M M Y Y
APPLICANT 1 APPLICANT 2
1. Employment c c
2. Self-Employment c c
3. Social welfare
Payment type(s)
5. Maintenance received c c
(if applicable)
APPLICANT 1 APPLICANT 2
6. Weekly deductions
PAYE c c
PRSI c c
Additional Superannuation c c
Contribution (ASC)
7. Other c c
8. Total deductions c c
1. PPSN
FIGURES LETTERS FIGURES LETTERS
2. First name(s)
Surname
3. Date of birth
(attach birth certificate) D D M M Y Y D D M M Y Y
4. Country of birth
5. Nationality
6. Gender
7. Marital status
8. Relationship to applicant
9. Current address
Eircode
11. Citizenship
status Irish UK Irish UK
(attach proof of citizenship)
Other
EEA* Non-EEA Other EEA* Non-EEA
Date
of entry to Ireland
(if applicable) D D M M Y Y D D M M Y Y
If
the household member is
not an EEA or UK national:
Basis
of stay in Ireland
(attach copy of residency
permission)
Self-employed Self-employed
Pensioner/Retired Pensioner/Retired
Student Student
1. Select
the nature of your current tenure from you selected private household, please ensure that
2. If
the list below you complete the relevant sections hereunder
D D M M Y Y
1. Tenancy
start 3. Have
you received a Yes No
date D D M M Y Y notice of termination?
Weekly rent c If
yes, please state reason
2. Are
you in arrears Yes No
of rent?
If
yes, state c
amount of
arrears
Which of the following best describes your reason for seeking support?
Please indicate the facilities available to your household in its current accommodation
Information about any local authority/Approved Housing Body/Rental Accommodation Scheme (RAS)
accommodation
1. Please
provide details, including dates and duration of tenancy, of any dwelling or site provided by a local authority,
or an Approved Housing Body, previously let or sold to the household or any household member at any time in the
past. A letter from the local authority where you or any member of your household was a tenant should be provided
in relation to any previous tenancy.
2. Please
provide details, including dates and duration of tenancy, of any dwelling previously let to the household or
any household member under a Rental Accommodation Scheme (RAS) tenancy agreement at any time before the
application is made.
Housing authorities must make an assessment of the accommodation needs of Travellers under Section 6 and 7 of the
Housing (Traveller Accommodation) Act, 1998. This information is requested for that purpose only and will not be used or
have any impact on your eligibility for social housing support.
Please indicate the type of social housing support that best meets your needs
Note: The site to be transferred must be clear of any burdens, financial or otherwise. The following must be provided:
1. Legal evidence of a right of way for the authority to the lands from the nearest public road.
2. Details of all lands in your ownership, including title documentation or a signed affidavit from a solicitor confirming
that the lands are registered in your ownership or the ownership of the person providing the site.
3. A written declaration of intention to transfer the site to the local authority free of charge.
4. A written acceptance from you (or the owner of the lands) that the final decision on the location of the proposed cottage
on the lands, subject to you qualifying for social housing support, is at the sole discretion of the local authority.
5. Any other documents, such as site location/layout maps, requested by the authority in connection with the application.
Name and address of owner of proposed site: Exact location of site (incl. townland):
* Separate application forms are required, discuss with your local authority.
Demountable Dwelling
Name and address of owner of proposed site: Exact location of site (incl. townland):
In support of your application on medical or disability grounds, please provide the following details and a completed
Medical and/or Disability Information Form (HMD-Form 1), available from your local authority:
NB: it is important to note that you may only apply for social housing support to one local authority, and it must be one
of the following:
i. A local authority whose area you currently live in
ii. A local authority that you have a local connection to, or
iii. There are other reasons why the local authority should accept your application for support.
1. Please indicate the basis for your application as follows (only one box should be ticked):
The local authority should consider the application for social housing support for the following reason(s)
2. Are
you or any household member currently on the housing list of Yes No
any other local authority?
If
yes, please provide the name of the household member and the local authority to which they have applied for social
housing support.
Areas of Choice*
Please tick the areas, within the local authority, where you would accept an offer of accommodation.
A maximum of 3 areas of choice may be ticked from the following list of areas of choice. Please note that listing of areas of
choice on the application form is not a priority listing, i.e. all areas of choice specified on the form are deemed to be of equal
priority. It should be noted that you are committed to these areas of choice for a period of 12 months.
Tallanstown
* It should be noted that a household meeting either the residence or local connection condition may specify up to three areas of choice
for receipt of support in the areas of all local authorities in the county and city concerned and, if qualified, will be entered on the housing
waiting list of each of those local authorities. Accordingly, under existing arrangements, a household that applies, for example, to
Dublin City Council can, if qualified for support and should they choose to do so, be entered on the waiting list of three of the
four local authorities in Dublin city and county (same applies in Cork and Galway).
1. Do
you or any member of your Yes No Yes No
household currently own or
have a financial interest in
any property in Ireland or any
other country? (Please include
accompanying documentation/
affidavit)
Address
of the property
Under Section 14 of the Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1997, a local authority may refuse to allocate or defer the
allocation of a dwelling to a person where the authority considers that the person is or has been engaged in anti-social
behaviour or that an allocation to that person would not be in the interest of good estate management.
In the 5 year period prior to the date of this application, has any member of the household been convicted of an offence
under any of the following statutory provisions (1-4)?
If ‘Yes’, please give details (including name, address and details of excluding order/interim excluding order):
3. Section
117 of the Criminal Justice Act 2006: failure to comply with Yes No
a behaviour order
If ‘Yes’, please give details (including name, address and details of conviction):
4. Section
257F of the Children Act 2001 (No. 24 of 2001): failure to comply Yes No
with a behaviour order.
If ‘Yes’, please give details (including name, address and details of conviction):
5. Have
you, or any of the other persons listed on this application form, Yes No
ever squatted in a local authority dwelling?
Address
From To
D D M M Y Y D D M M Y Y
7. Have
you, or any of the other persons listed on this application form, ever been evicted from previous accommodation?
If ‘Yes’, please give details of eviction and the reason why it happened (if you need more space, attach another page):
Please provide any other information which you might consider relevant to your application.
(if you need more space, attach another page)
Application for
SOCIAL HOUSING SUPPORT DECLARATION
Please read the following information relating to the collection and use of your personal data
and the declaration carefully. The declaration should only be signed and dated if you are entirely
satisfied that you understand all of the information presented in this form. Please note that
an application for social housing support can only be accepted when the application has been
completed, and this declaration has been signed.
ALL data supplied by you when completing this form (including any personal data you submit) will be used for the purposes
of assessing and administering your application for Social Housing Support. The law allows this local authority in certain
circumstances to share your data with other public bodies. For example, we may share your data with the Central Statistics
Office under the Statistics Act 1993. The data supplied by you when completing this application may be shared with the
Local Government Management Agency (LGMA) and The Housing Agency in order to fulfil a statutory requirement to
provide an annual Summary of Social Housing Assessments, including the production at a national level of statistical
reports that inform policy and future planning in terms of the national housing need.
In carrying out its functions under the Housing Acts of 1966-2014, the local authority may request and obtain information
from other organisations. These include another local authority, the Criminal Assets Bureau, An Garda Síochána, the
Department of Social Protection, the Health Service Executive (HSE), the Revenue Commissioners or an Approved
Housing Body in relation to current or prospective occupants of, or applicants for, local authority housing. Your data
may also be shared with other public bodies in accordance with our obligation to prevent and detect fraud.
Your rights as a data subject under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) apply in full and are clearly
set out in Louth County Council's Privacy Statement. Copies of this
are available from www.louthcoco.ie.
If you have any questions about your rights under GDPR, you can contact Louth County Council's
Data Protection Officer, or you may also contact the Data Protection Commission (DPC).
Declaration
1. I (or we) declare that the information and details given by me (or us) on this application are true and correct.
2. I (or we) promise to notify the local authority of any change in my (or our) household circumstances such as our address,
the people who make up the household, their wages or payments, or medical conditions if this changes from the details
we gave on this form.
3. I (or we) also agree that the local authority can make whatever enquiries it considers necessary to check that the details
of this application are correct.
4. I am (or we are) aware that it is against the law to give false information on this form and that I (or we) can be prosecuted
for doing that.
5. I (or we) understand that my (or our) personal data will be shared with the LGMA, and The Housing Agency for the
purposes set out above.
6. I (or we) understand that my (or our) personal data will be shared with other public bodies only as provided by law.
7. I (or we) understand that a failure to respond to a request for updated information, as part of the Summary of Social
Housing Assessments process, may result in my (or our) housing application being closed.
Applicant 1
Signed Date
D D M M Y Y
Applicant 2
Signed Date
D D M M Y Y
If you have any queries in relation to the completion of this social housing application form
or the required documentation, please contact Louth County Council by telephone on
042 9335457, by email at info@louthcoco.ie or by calling into one of our Customer
Services Units (locations set out below).
Please submit your completed application form and all relevant supporting documentation
in person to one of Louth County Council's Customer Services Units located at:
OR
OR
OR
Mid Louth Civic Services Centre, Fairgreen, Ardee, Co Louth A92 RYT2