Extended income support: Find out if you qualify.

New rule in income support includes tenants who kept the house after changing their contract.

Monthly rental support for tenants with high effort rates, resumed in early July of last year, has been extended to cases where tenants had to change the contract - either due to its termination or at the landlord's initiative - but remain in the same house, warns DECO PROTeste.

According to what is read on Notícias ao Minuto, if you lost this support before last summer, you can now apply again. However, it will not be possible to recover the amounts corresponding to the months when the support was not in force.

In the remaining cases, DECO clarifies that support for rent under the Mais Habitação program is maintained, which includes various measures to support housing credit.

Know that: Unchanged rents in recent years could increase by up to 11% in 2025

Note that income support is monthly and granted for a maximum period of five years, intended for families whose income to expense ratio exceeds 35%.

If you are renting a house and want to calculate your family's effort rate, just divide the monthly rent by the available net income for each month.

Learn more about the effort rate: Effort rate: What is this concept and how is it calculated?

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