Difference between revisions of "Welfare Rates and Payment Issues (21:VIII)"

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Recipients  are  not  eligible for  the  full  monthly  shelter  allowance  if  they are  not  paying  that  much in shelter  costs.    Schedule  A,  s  5  of  the  EAR  and  EAPWDR  set  out  what  expenses  items  can  be included  when  calculating  shelter  costs.  They  are:  rent,  mortgage  payments,  house  insurance premiums,  property  taxes  for  the  recipient’s  own  home,  utility  costs,  and  the  actual  cost  of maintenance and repairs for the recipient’s own home '''if''' these costs have been approved.  Note that the definition of “utility costs” in Schedule A, s 5(1) of the EAR and EAPWDR is quite broad.   
Recipients  are  not  eligible for  the  full  monthly  shelter  allowance  if  they are  not  paying  that  much in shelter  costs.    Schedule  A,  s  5  of  the  EAR  and  EAPWDR  set  out  what  expenses  items  can  be included  when  calculating  shelter  costs.  They  are:  rent,  mortgage  payments,  house  insurance premiums,  property  taxes  for  the  recipient’s  own  home,  utility  costs,  and  the  actual  cost  of maintenance and repairs for the recipient’s own home '''if''' these costs have been approved.  Note that the definition of “utility costs” in Schedule A, s 5(1) of the EAR and EAPWDR is quite broad.   


Where two or more family units share the same place of residence, the family units’ shelter costs are calculated according to s 5(4) of Schedule A of the EAR and EAPWDR.
Where two or more family units share the same place of residence, the family units’ shelter costs are calculated according to s 5(4) of Schedule A of the EAR and EAPWDR.


== C. Rates for People Receiving Room and Board ==
== C. Rates for People Receiving Room and Board ==