Cork County Council tenants ‘did not receive request about rent hike’

Cork County Council tenants say they have been hit with significant rent hikes for failing to provide the local authority with information — despite their claim of being unaware of any such request.

The council is currently in the process of implementing the County Wide Differential Rent Scheme, a programme put in place following the abolition of Town Councils that aims to standardise rental rates for tenants.

Some tenants have received notifications that their rents will rise next month because they have failed to provide information on their household incomes, which the council says it requested under the scheme.