An ineligible property owner is a property owner who is ineligible for rent assistance.
According to subsection 5N(1) of the VEA, these people are not regarded as ineligible property owners and therefore may be eligible for rent assistance:
- a person who is a property owner by virtue of paragraph 5L(4)(c) (proceeds of sale of principal home disregarded for 12 months); or
- a person who:
- is absent from the person's principal home, in relation to which the person is a property owner; and
- is in a care situation but is not residing in a retirement village; or
- a person who:
- is absent from the person's principal home, in relation to which the person is a property owner; and
- is personally providing community-based care for another person; or
- a person who pays amounts for the use of a site for a caravan or other vehicle, or a structure, that is the person's principal home; or
- a person who pays amounts for the right to moor a vessel that is the person's principal home.