Rent and IOAW: Important Information

Questioner

Read the following answer to another question about whether rent is offset against the ioaw: 'Good day, the income from renting is not deducted from your IOAW benefit. According to article 8 paragraph 1a of the IOAW Act, we speak of other income. Other income here should be understood to mean income from work and income from salary (such as unemployment benefits). The income from renting is therefore not included here.' But if I rent out 'part' of my house, will the 'tenant' then be considered a 'co-resident' and will my IOAW benefit therefore be reduced in that way?

Lawyer

A cost-sharer is someone who lives in the same home with you and with whom you can share the housing costs. The cost-sharer standard also applies to an IOAW benefit. As in the Participation Act, the legislator has included exceptions to the application of the cost-sharer standard in the IOAW. For example, Article 5, paragraph 8, of the IOAW states which persons are not considered to be cost-sharing co-residents. Not all co-residents are therefore considered to be cost-sharers, such as in the case of a commercial relationship. For the application of the cost-sharer standard, the following are not included: “the person, not being a blood or marital relative in the first or second degree of the single unemployed worker, who, on the basis of a written agreement with the single unemployed worker, in which a commercial price has been agreed, has his main residence as landlord, tenant, sub-lessor, sub-tenant, boarder or lodger in the same dwelling as the single unemployed worker”