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→B. Calculating the Shelter Allowance
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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.
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 ==